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...Razzia (Kassler) is a harrowingly realistic gangster picture-perhaps the most painstaking study of criminal methods that has ever been made in an entertainment film...
...this legend provided the material for one of the most horrifying pictures ever made. Produced by UFA (see p. 52), directed by Paul Wegener. who also wrote the scenario and played the title role, it showed the Golem on an expressionistic rampage (see cut). Last year. Production Manager Frank Kassler of A-B (for nothing) Films, which makes most of Czechoslovakia's annual program of about 30 feature pictures at $30,000 each, decided to make another Golem. He hired Director Julien Duvivier (La Maternelle), Actor Harry Baur (Les Miserables), spent $200,000 building a medieval ghetto...
Main character in Producer Kassler's Golem is not the Golem but Emperor Rudolph (Harry Baur). Half-mad, bullied by his Prime Minister and harried by his mistress (Germaine Aussey), he has a fixation about the Golem, wants it destroyed. Prague's persecuted Jews are equally determined to preserve it. Rabbi Loew is dead but his successor, Rabbi Jacob, knows the formula for bringing the Golem to life, tells it to his wife. The Golem is not disturbed until most of Prague's Jews have been tossed into the lion pit in the Emperor's dungeons...
...despatch from Denver says that Charles W. Stickney, who was acquitted of the murder of Campau on the ground of emotional insanity, has brought suit in the country court for a divorce from his wife, Nina Stickney. He has also brought suit against G. W. Kassler, administrator of the estate of M. T. Campau, for the recovery of the property conveyed by Campau to him for the benefit of his wife. The latter suit is brought for the benefit of Mrs. Stickney, and the real estate will become her property in case of recovery...