The Dance of Death

Oct 31, 1919

1h 24m

★ 0.0

Overview

In this apparently lost film, a beautiful dancer's sexual allure is used by an evil cripple to entice men to their deaths. Falling in love with one of the potential victims, she is told by the cripple that he will set her free if her lover, actually a murderer himself, survives and escapes a bizarre labyrinthe which runs beneath the cripple's house.

Genres

Drama

Horror

Production Companies

Helios Film

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Cast

The Cripple

Werner Krauss

The Beautiful Dancer

Sascha Gura

Harry Free

Fred Goebel

Frederic Hennekemper

Karl Bernhard

Dr. Sellin

Arnold Czempin

Richard Kirsch

Joseph Römer

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The Dance of Death

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