The Cabinet of Caligari (1962) on Netflix
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A tire blowout strands Jane Lindstrom at the estate of Caligari. After a night there, he will not let her leave, so she looks for allies among the other guests.
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Plot summary
Jane Lindstrom is driving when a tire blows out, so she seeks assistance at an estate owned by Caligari, a polite and erudite man. She spends the night at the estate. Afterward she finds that he will not let her leave: he asks personal questions and shows her images that offend her. Guards prevent her from leaving, and she is unable to use the telephone. Looking for allies among the other guests at the estate, Jane finds only three possible candidates: Paul, an older man; Mark, a younger man for whom she has romantic desires; and Ruth, a lively elderly woman.
Cast
- Phyllis Teagardinas Jane as a Child
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Cabinet of Caligari (1962)
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- Maury Dexter said that during filming director Roger Kay yelled at star Glynis Johns and Johns ran off the set, and that producer Robert Lippert forced Kay to apologize so filming could continue.
- In 1963 director Roger Kay disowned the film, blaming Fox for turning it into a "lurid, sex charged picture" and saying the released version was considerably different from his own; a copy of his original cut was with the Museum of Modern Art.
- Director Roger Kay tried to claim sole screenwriting credit, but Robert Bloch took the dispute to Writers Guild of America arbitration, which awarded Bloch sole writing credit on the final film.
- Harry Spalding, who worked for Lippert, recalled that the director hired Robert Bloch to write the script, but the two had a falling out and the director re-wrote the script himself.
- Director Roger Kay used a color chart while making the film, going through the script and allocating a color to represent the emotion the audience was to feel.
- Maury Dexter later said that once he read the script and saw how different it would be from the original, he advised Lippert to fire Kay, but Lippert backed the director.
- In 1934 the original film's director, Robert Wiene, pitched a sound remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to a French studio and intended to cast Jean Cocteau in a leading role.
