Before plumbing the depths of horror and despair with such films as Faust and the Last Laugh, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau tested the waters with this moody drama of a storm-bound manor and the grim... more
Emil Jannings, Gosta Ekman. This colossal adaptation of the classic tale of a deal with the devil presents the struggling Dr. Faustus and the fiend Mephisto in the operatic glory that befits them. Is... more