Silent Film Plots and Stills W

Wachsfigurenkabinett
(1924) (Neptun-Film)
STARS:
Conrad Veidt
Werner Krauss
William Dieterle
Emil Jannings
DIRECTOR:Paul Leni
AVAILABLE?
Sinister Cinema
LSVideo

PLOT:A trilogy of tales surrounded by the framing sequence of a magazine writer who's supposed to do a feature on the waxworks and falls asleep inside it.
Haroun Al-Raschid
Ivan the Terrible
Jack the Ripper

STILLS:
* Conrad Veidt as Ivan the Terrible. (C-5. S)
* Ivan (Conrad Veidt) taking an axe to a prisoner tied to a post. (F-15. S)
* Ivan (Conrad Veidt) seizing the body of a dead man, while a woman looks on. (O-25. S)
* Jack the Ripper (Werner Krauss) pursuing the lovers (two unidentified actors). (F-15. S)
NOTES: English title: Waxworks. Originally four tales were intended - Rinaldo Rinaldini was another character, to be played by Wilhelm Dieterle. His wax figure is seen at the beginning of the film.

Wahnsinn
(1924) (Veidt-Film)
STARS:
Conrad Veidt
DIRECTOR:Conrad Veidt
AVAILABLE?

PLOT:
A banker named Lorenzen (Veidt) suffers a nervous breakdown. He later meets a gypsy who foretells that he will come across a certain trunk, which will have a special significance for the banker - either happiness or death. Later the banker becomes locked in the trunk and dies of suffocation.
STILLS:
NOTES:

Der Weg ins Freie
(1941) (UFA)
STARS:
Zarah Leander
Hans St�we
DIRECTOR:
AVAILABLE?

PLOT:
Leander plays an opera singer and the wife of a landowner (Hans St�we) who can break out into freedom only in suicide.
STILLS:
* Closeup of Zarah Leander and Hans St�we dancing.
NOTES:English title: Path to Freedom

Die Wege zu Kraft und Schonheit
(1925) ()
STARS:

DIRECTOR:
AVAILABLE?

PLOT:
STILLS:
* The backs of 5 unidentified nude actors. (U-5. S)

NOTES:English title: Ways to Strength and Beauty.

Das Weib des Pharoa
(1920) (UFA)
STARS:

DIRECTOR:Ernst Lubitsch
AVAILABLE?

PLOT:
STILLS:
* Crowd scene. (U-5. S)

NOTES:English title: The Loves of the Pharaoh.

Whistling in the Dark
(1941) (MGM)
STARS:
Red Skelton
Conrad Veidt
DIRECTOR:Sylvan Simon
AVAILABLE?
Amazon.com
Television

PLOT: SOUND. Joseph Jones (Conrad Veidt) is the head of a cult organization which dupes elderly women into leaving their fortunes to the cult. When one of their members dies, she has left her fortune to her nephew first, and at his death, to the cult. Jones wants radio detective The Fox (Red Skelton) to come up with a fool-proof plan to kill the nephew. Skelton's character is a wise-cracking simulacrum of Bob Hope, but Veidt's Joseph Jones is all suave villainy. He delivers his lines with perfect comedic timing, and still exudes menace.
STILLS:
* Conrad Veidt and unidentified actor, dressed in their cult robes, outdoors. They have just completed the ceremony burying one of their recently deceased members. ''We part in radiant contentment.''(C-5. S).
NOTES: For a complete synoposis go to Veidt Villainies

William Voss
(1915) ()
STARS:

DIRECTOR:
AVAILABLE?

PLOT:
STILLS:
* An unidentified actor sitting alone in a room looking at his prosthetic hand. (S-5. S)
NOTES:

Wo ist Coletti?
(1913) ()
STARS:
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DIRECTOR:
AVAILABLE?

PLOT:
STILLS:
* A group of four unidentified actors. (S-5. S)
* Crowd of actors clinging to a doubledecker bus. (S-5. S)
NOTES:

A Woman's Face
(1941) (MGM)
STARS:
Joan Crawford
Conrad Veidt
Albert Basserman
DIRECTOR:George Cukor
AVAILABLE?
Television

PLOT: SOUND. A badly scarred woman runs a blackmail racket. When a man reacts to her face without disgust, she falls in love with him. He attempts to use her to kill a small boy, so that he may inherit the family fortune.
STILLS:
* Conrad Veidt, tuxedo-clad, mid shot. (C-5. S)
NOTES:American film. Included because it starred Conrad Veidt.

Wunschkonzert
(1940) (Cine-Allianz
Tonfilmproduktion)
STARS:
Ilse Werner
Carl Raddatz
DIRECTOR:Eduard von Borsody
AVAILABLE?

PLOT:
A German officer and a young girl meet at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and fall in love. He is duave, dashing and decent, she is lovely and innocent. The couple is repeatedly separated by the officer's duty to the fatherland, for he serves in Spain, on the western front, and in the war against England. Because of the secrecy of his mission to Spain with the famed Condor Legion, they lose contact with each other. They are eventually reunited when the officer asks Goedecke (in real-life, a prominent Nazi who had a radio program at the time called Request Concert) to play the Olympic fanfare on his program, knowing that the girl will respond by asking the MC for the identity and location of the man who requested the music. After a series of misadventures and comic blunders, the couple is reunited in love, though the ending of the film implies that the officer may once again be on the march, this time against England.

STILLS:
* Ilse Werner and Carl Raddatz dining in restaurant. (U-5. S), (W-1. P)
NOTES:English title: Wish Concert. Script by F. Lutzkendorf and E. von Borsody. Premiered December 30, 1940

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Wachsfigurenkabinett (1924) (Neptun-Film) STARS: Conrad Veidt Werner Krauss William Dieterle Emil Jannings DIRECTOR:Paul Leni AVAILABLE? Sinister Cinema LSVideo	PLOT:A trilogy of tales surrounded by the framing sequence of a magazine writer who's supposed to do a feature on the waxworks and falls asleep inside it. Haroun Al-Raschid Ivan the Terrible Jack the Ripper STILLS: * Conrad Veidt as Ivan the Terrible. (C-5. S) * Ivan (Conrad Veidt) taking an axe to a prisoner tied to a post. (F-15. S) * Ivan (Conrad Veidt) seizing the body of a dead man, while a woman looks on. (O-25. S) * Jack the Ripper (Werner Krauss) pursuing the lovers (two unidentified actors). (F-15. S) NOTES: English title: Waxworks. Originally four tales were intended - Rinaldo Rinaldini was another character, to be played by Wilhelm Dieterle. His wax figure is seen at the beginning of the film.
Wahnsinn (1924) (Veidt-Film) STARS: Conrad Veidt DIRECTOR:Conrad Veidt AVAILABLE?	PLOT: A banker named Lorenzen (Veidt) suffers a nervous breakdown. He later meets a gypsy who foretells that he will come across a certain trunk, which will have a special significance for the banker - either happiness or death. Later the banker becomes locked in the trunk and dies of suffocation. STILLS: NOTES:
Der Weg ins Freie (1941) (UFA) STARS: Zarah Leander Hans St�we DIRECTOR: AVAILABLE?	PLOT: Leander plays an opera singer and the wife of a landowner (Hans St�we) who can break out into freedom only in suicide. STILLS: * Closeup of Zarah Leander and Hans St�we dancing. NOTES:English title: Path to Freedom
Die Wege zu Kraft und Schonheit (1925) () STARS: DIRECTOR: AVAILABLE?	PLOT: STILLS: * The backs of 5 unidentified nude actors. (U-5. S) NOTES:English title: Ways to Strength and Beauty.
Das Weib des Pharoa (1920) (UFA) STARS: DIRECTOR:Ernst Lubitsch AVAILABLE?	PLOT: STILLS: * Crowd scene. (U-5. S) NOTES:English title: The Loves of the Pharaoh.
Whistling in the Dark (1941) (MGM) STARS: Red Skelton Conrad Veidt DIRECTOR:Sylvan Simon AVAILABLE? Amazon.com Television	PLOT: SOUND. Joseph Jones (Conrad Veidt) is the head of a cult organization which dupes elderly women into leaving their fortunes to the cult. When one of their members dies, she has left her fortune to her nephew first, and at his death, to the cult. Jones wants radio detective The Fox (Red Skelton) to come up with a fool-proof plan to kill the nephew. Skelton's character is a wise-cracking simulacrum of Bob Hope, but Veidt's Joseph Jones is all suave villainy. He delivers his lines with perfect comedic timing, and still exudes menace. STILLS: * Conrad Veidt and unidentified actor, dressed in their cult robes, outdoors. They have just completed the ceremony burying one of their recently deceased members. ''We part in radiant contentment.''(C-5. S). NOTES: For a complete synoposis go to Veidt Villainies
William Voss (1915) () STARS: DIRECTOR: AVAILABLE?	PLOT: STILLS: * An unidentified actor sitting alone in a room looking at his prosthetic hand. (S-5. S) NOTES:
Wo ist Coletti? (1913) () STARS: font color = black> DIRECTOR: AVAILABLE?	PLOT: STILLS: * A group of four unidentified actors. (S-5. S) * Crowd of actors clinging to a doubledecker bus. (S-5. S) NOTES:
A Woman's Face (1941) (MGM) STARS: Joan Crawford Conrad Veidt Albert Basserman DIRECTOR:George Cukor AVAILABLE? Television	PLOT: SOUND. A badly scarred woman runs a blackmail racket. When a man reacts to her face without disgust, she falls in love with him. He attempts to use her to kill a small boy, so that he may inherit the family fortune. STILLS: * Conrad Veidt, tuxedo-clad, mid shot. (C-5. S) NOTES:American film. Included because it starred Conrad Veidt.
Wunschkonzert (1940) (Cine-Allianz Tonfilmproduktion) STARS: Ilse Werner Carl Raddatz DIRECTOR:Eduard von Borsody AVAILABLE?	PLOT: A German officer and a young girl meet at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and fall in love. He is duave, dashing and decent, she is lovely and innocent. The couple is repeatedly separated by the officer's duty to the fatherland, for he serves in Spain, on the western front, and in the war against England. Because of the secrecy of his mission to Spain with the famed Condor Legion, they lose contact with each other. They are eventually reunited when the officer asks Goedecke (in real-life, a prominent Nazi who had a radio program at the time called Request Concert) to play the Olympic fanfare on his program, knowing that the girl will respond by asking the MC for the identity and location of the man who requested the music. After a series of misadventures and comic blunders, the couple is reunited in love, though the ending of the film implies that the officer may once again be on the march, this time against England. STILLS: * Ilse Werner and Carl Raddatz dining in restaurant. (U-5. S), (W-1. P) NOTES:English title: Wish Concert. Script by F. Lutzkendorf and E. von Borsody. Premiered December 30, 1940