Warning Shadows

Warning Shadows

Arthur Robison's Expressionist Thriller

1923 · 90 min · ★ 6.6 · Thriller, Fantasy, Drama, Horror

During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the marriage by giving all the guests a vision what might happen tonight if the baron stays jealous and the suitors do not reduce their advances towards his beautiful wife. Or was it a vision?

Directed by Arthur Robison · Written by Arthur Robison

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