For the 1970 Van Morrison song, see Into the Mystic.
Louis B. Mayer
Irving Thalberg
Aileen Pringle
Conway Tearle
Ira H. Morgan
Frank Sullivan
September 27, 1925 (1925-09-27)
The Mystic is a 1925 American MGM silent drama film directed by Tod Browning, who later directed MGM's Freaks (1932). It was co-written by Browning and Waldemar Young, writing a similar storyline to their earlier 1925 hit film The Unholy Three. Browning was unable however to hire his favorite star Lon Chaney this time around, and The Mystic wound up a little-known film with a cast of now-forgotten names.[1] Aileen Pringle's gowns in the film were by already famous Romain de Tirtoff (known as Erté).[2] A print of the film exists.[3]
Zara (Aileen Pringle) is a gypsy rogue who joins with Confederate Zazarack (Mitchell Lewis) to aid Michael Nash (Conway Tearle), the crooked guardian of heiress Doris Merrick (Gladys Hulette), to gain control of her estate by way of fake seances. He tries to convince her that her dead father is telling her to give all of her worldly possessions to the phony spitualists.
Aileen Pringle as Zara
Conway Tearle as Michael Nash
Mitchell Lewis as Zazarack
Robert Ober as Anton
Stanton Heck as Carlo
David Torrence as Bradshaw
Gladys Hulette as Doris Merrick
DeWitt Jennings as Police Inspector
^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p.289. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
^ "Progressive Silent Film List: The Mystic". Silent Era. Retrieved May 8, 2008.
^ "The Mystic". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved January 10, 2014.
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