Vincent Price
Don Gallico/Gallico the Great
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The Mad Magician: Directed by John Brahm. With Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Eva Gabor, John Emery. An illusionist becomes homicidal when his best kept magic secrets are stolen by his rival.
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- Drama
- John Brahm
- 1954-04-07
The Mad Magician is a 1954 American horror film in 3D, directed by John Brahm starring Vincent Price, Mary Murphy and Eva Gabor. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures , with a release in 3-D to build on the craze started by films such as House of Wax (1953), which also starred Price.
The result, The Mad Magician (1954), was filmed in sparkling black-and-white and 3-D. Turn-of-the-century illusion expert Don Gallico (Vincent Price) creates elaborate tricks for well-known magicians. He plans to open a show of his own using an elaborate buzz-saw trick which will appear to cut off the head of his assistant, Karen Lee (Mary Murphy).
- John Brahm, Hal Herman
- Vincent Price
Magician Don Gallico (Price) is incensed when his attempts at stardom is scuppered by a contract he signed, so much so he takes matters in to his own hands... One of the eras 3-D productions, The Mad Magician sees Columbia recycle Warner Brother's 1953 release of House of Wax. The familiarity of it all is impossible to shake off, with a key sc...
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