The Spectacle Maker

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Nora Cecil, Cora Sue Collins, Christian Rub, and Douglas Scott in The Spectacle Maker (1934)

A parable about magic glasses involving on the nature of beauty, truth, good, and evil set in 17th Century Germany with music and Glorious Technicolor.A parable about magic glasses involving on the nature of beauty, truth, good, and evil set in 17th Century Germany with music and Glorious Technicolor.A parable about magic glasses involving on the nature of beauty, truth, good, and evil set in 17th Century Germany with music and Glorious Technicolor.

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Francis X. Bushman Jr.

Soldier
(uncredited)

Nora Cecil

Duchess
(uncredited)

Harvey Clark

The Grand Duke
(uncredited)

Cora Sue Collins

The Little Princess
(uncredited)

Nigel De Brulier

The Man in Black
(uncredited)

John George

Court Jester
(uncredited)

Sumner Getchell

Lens Buyer
(uncredited)

Christian Rub

Hans Schmidt
(uncredited)

Douglas Scott

Peter
(uncredited)

William Tannen

The Grand Duke as Seen thru the Magic Spectacle
(uncredited)

Robert Taylor

The Duchess's Paramour
(uncredited)

Director
- John Farrow
Writers
- John Farrow
- Frank Harris
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Trivia
Christian Rub's make-up and playing of Hans Schmidt in this film may have served as a model for Disney's depiction of Geppetto in Pinocchio (1940). Rub also dubbed the character's voice in the 1940 animated feature.

Quotes
Hans Schmidt: Where are you going?
The Man in Black: From whence I came. And I take your glass with me, Hans Schmidt. Make no more. For man is not yet ready for truth.