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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Lord Arthur Saville's Crime' (Hungarian: 'Lidrcnyoms') is a 1920 Hungarian silent crime film directed by Pl Fejs and starring dn Brdi, Lajos Gellrt and Margit Lux. It was also released as both 'Mark of the Phantom' and 'Lidercnyomas'. The film was based on the 1891 short story 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime' by Oscar Wilde. It was one of Pal Fejos' earliest films and is now considered lost.Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 225.. It was photographed by Jozsef Karban.Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 225..
In 1927, director Fejos emigrated to Hollywood where he directed 'The Last Performance', and later directed 'Fantmas' (1932 film)' in France in 1932.Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 225..
The Oscar Wilde short story was filmed twice more in Europe during the silent years.... in 1919 as 'Lord Saviles brott' (a Swedish film directed by Gunnar Klintburg) and again in 1921 as 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime' (a French film directed by Rene Hervil).Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 238..
Plot
After being told by a fortune teller named Septimus R. Podgers that he is destined to be a murderer, an aristocrat named Lord Arthur Saville decides to commit a murder before his impending marriage, so his marriage will not be sullied. He slips his old aunt a poison pill, and she dies, leaving him a huge inheritance. When his fianc Sybil later finds the poison pill among his deceased aunt's belongings, he realizes he did not murder her after all. After a few more failed attempts to kill someone, he returns to the fortune teller and winds up pushing her into the Thames, where she drowns. He gets away with killing her though, as the police rule her death a suicide. Free at last, he marries Sybil, but learns many years later that the fortune teller he killed had been a total fraud with no powers of prediction whatsoever.
Cast
* dn Brdi - Arthur Fayerle
* Lajos Gellrt - Blecher
* Margit Lux
* Gusztv Prtos
References
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