---
title: 'The Wizard (1927)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Richard Rosson'
released: '1927-01-01'
genres:
  - 'Horror'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-wizard-1927'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018584/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Wizard (1927)

1927 · Horror · United States


## Synopsis

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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Richard Rosson](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-rosson)
- **Screenplay:** [Andrew Bennison](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrew-bennison)

## Cast

- [Edmund Lowe](https://cinepixo.com/people/edmund-lowe)

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