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The Cabinet of Caligari
The Cabinet of Caligari is a 1962 American horror film by , starring Glynis Johns, Dan O'Herlihy, and Richard Davalos, and released by 20th Century Fox.
Although the film has a title that is very similar to that of the acclaimed silent horror film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1920), it shares very few similarities except for the main plot twist. The film is notable for a script written by Robert Bloch, author of the novel "Psycho". The cinematographer for
played the villain in Alfred Hitchcock's "Notorious", with Ingrid Bergman.
- Conrad Veidt as Major Heinrich Strasser. He was a refugee German actor who had appeared in "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari". He fled the Nazis but was frequently cast as a Nazi in American films. A star in German cinema before the Nazi era, he was the highest paid member of the cast despite his second billing.
- Sydney Greenstreet as Signor Ferrari. Another Englishman, Greenstreet had previously starred with Lorre and Bogart