However, unbeknownst to Remington, his secretary, Darwin Kershaw (Stanhope Whatcroft), is secretly a member of a dangerous gang trying to obtain the device for themselves. Girard) negotiates with Professor Hollister (Joseph Harrington) for possession of his devastating Death Ray. On behalf of the government, Cyrus Remington (Joseph W. Beware of people who want to tell you they have the complete film, it’s invariably the 1920 version.) (The film fragments are available on YouTube, here and here. This version is a lost film, with only fragments surviving: enough to show us, however, how close Wegener stayed to his original concept of the Golem when he made his famous, surviving version in 1920. The Golem was directed by Henrik Galeen, who wrote the screenplay with Paul Wegener: both starred in the film, Galeen as the modern antiques dealer who finds the living Golem and tries to turn it into his servant, only to lose control of it and Wegener as the Golem itself. However, some sources claim that this version bears little resemblance to the novel. This was supposedly the first filming of Gustav Meyrink’s novel, Der Golem, which itself drew upon Jewish folklore in its tale of 16th century Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, who created the Golem to protect his people. Original title: Der Golem also known as: Monster Of Fate.
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