Amazing vintage matte-finish 11.75 x 10 photo of the cast of the 1932 mystery-fantasy film Chandu the Magician, signed in the lower border in fountain pen by cast members Bela Lugosi, Edmund Lowe, Irene Ware, Weldon Heyburn, and June Vlasek, and directors William Cameron Menzies and Marcel Varnel. Also inscribed below the image in another hand, “M. A. Levy—Chandu! Out of the Air…….Onto the Screen!” A few trivial marks, tiny stains, and trimmed edges, otherwise fine condition. The film cast Lowe as the magician Chandu and Lugosi as megalomaniac villain Roxor, who kidnaps Chandu’s brother-in-law to get access to a powerful death ray invention. William Cameron Menzies was renowned as an art director, and employed several innovative special effects and techniques in the film. A unique piece from one of Hollywood’s early forays into the science fiction genre. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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