Paul Leni: A Retrospective

In the late silent and early sound era, one of the chief imports to Hollywood was German directors. The most important import was probably Ernst Lubitsch, but there were definitely others such as F.W. Murnau and Fritz Lang (you could throw in Billy Wilder, but he was imported as a writer, and he struggled to get into the country and system). One of those that could have been in that top tier was Paul Leni, attracting the attention of Hollywood with his anthology film Waxworks, but he died in 192...