Word: landru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this case the Corsican comes to life in a wax works under the torrid gaze of a film actress (Lenore Ulric). He makes a date with her for the evening, borrows Woodrow Wilson's top hat, Mussolini's sponge-bag trousers and with some advice given by Landru, the wife-murderer, sets off to the assignation. Some French generals hear of the resurrection, insist that the Little Corporal make all Europe French. After a visit to a disarmament conference, a few experiences with radios and telephones, Napoleon goes back to the wax works in disgust. All this...
...Napoleon Intrudes" is called by its author, Walter Hasenclaver, the noted German expressismist, "An adventure in seven pictures." It portrays 'Napoleon," a wax figure in a museum, together with other celebrities such as Mussolini, the President of the United States, and the French Bluebeard, Monsieur Landru, who becomes dissatisfied with the condition of affairs in Europe. He gets himself into a convention of nations, a movie studio, and a madhouse in rapid succession; by his continual insistence that he is Napoleon people are convinced that he is insane. Finally he gives up his idea of reorganizing the governments of Europe...