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The Mad Magician
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The Mad Magician is a 1954 film about a magician who is driven to commit murder.
Directed by John Brahm. Written by Crane Wilbur.
SPINE CHILLING-THRILLS! (taglines)
Don Gallico
You're not afraid of riding with me, are you Karen?
[about the crematorium] Can you hear it, Lieutenant? It has the voice of a mad bull!
They'll lock me in jail in a padded cell with a strait jacket! No thank You! I'll take the chair!
Dialogue
The Great Rinaldi: [about Ormond] You had every reason to hate him. What did you do with him, Gallico? How did you get rid of it? [indicating Gallico's furnace] Was this thing already built and hidden away, waiting for a job like that?
Don Gallico: Ormond was seen alive two weeks ago, The Prentisses identified him.
The Great Rinaldi: That didn't have to be him.
Don Gallico: Who else could it have been?
The Great Rinaldi: It could have been you, Gallico. From what Ormond told me you are a clever man, developed a wonderful new makeup, something new in the theater. Something that might be used offstage too. Only a man who dreams up illusions would think of such a thing, and only people of the theater would know it was possible.
Taglines
3D THRILL! Fuel for the human bonfire!
SPINE CHILLING-THRILLS!
Astounding! Astonishing! Amaazing! So different you'll hardly believe your eyes!
Cast
Vincent Price — Don Gallico / Gallico the Great
Mary Murphy — Karen Lee
Eva Gabor — Claire Ormond
John Emery — The Great Rinaldi
Donald Randolph — Ross Ormond
Lenita Lane — Alice Prentiss
Patrick O'Neal — Police Detective Lt. Alan Bruce
Jay Novello — Frank Prentiss
External links
0047200 The Mad Magician
Category:1954 American films
Category:1954 English-language films
Category:Films directed by John Brahm
Category:1950s horror films
Category:Films about magic and magicians
Category:American 3D films