The Wizard (1927)

Anecdotes

The Wizard is a lost 1927 American mystery film directed by Richard Rosson. The film is based on the 1911 story Balaoo by Gaston Leroux. The film is about Dr. Paul Coriolos who has grafted a human face onto an ape, and sends it out to capture people and bring them back to his home to be tortured and killed. Reporter Stanley Gordon is booked to a write-up on the mystery, and finds that Anne Webster and her father have been mysteriously disappeared from their dinner home. Gordon follows the clues to discover them at Coriolos's home.

Production

The Wizard was announced by the Los Angeles Times on November 7, 1927. It is adapted from Balaoo (1911) by Gaston Leroux. The story had previously been adapted by in 1913 as Balaoo, The Demon Baboon. The film was co-written by Harry O. Hoyt who had previously directed the film The Lost World (1925). Malcolm Stuart Boylan provided the intertitles.

In 1928, the Warren Tribune of Pennsylvania reviewed the film Something

Always Happens (1928) and compared it The Bat (1926) and The Wizard (1927) and "other films of the same type" in an article titled "Horror Film Thrills Audience at Columbia." Rhodes noted that different descriptions were used for films like The Bat, The Wizard, and The Cat and the Canary (1927), but they were most commonly referred to as mystery films."

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