This strange and unique 1929 thriller from Danish director Benjamin Christensen is based on a 1927 novel by Abraham Merritt. Many peculiar characters are involved and some innovative makeup creations are on hand. How about a remake, but with the action still based in the twenties? Or better yet, a new sitcom with these characters? C’mon! Just look at them!

There’s no official copy available from home viewing, it seems, as prints are very rare and scattered around the globe in various forms and image conditions. Of one of its many ahead of its time scenes, there’s a gorilla that becomes very interested in a naked and chained up Asian lady!

This rare photograph popped up on eBay some time back and here are your main cast members: back row we find Creighton Hale, Sojin, Nora Cecil; front row we have William V. Mong, Thelma Todd and Charles Gemora as (obviously) the gorilla.