The Mystic (1925)

An American con man (Conway Tearle) imports a Gypsy girl (Aileen Pringle) and her father (Mitchell Lewis) from Hungary to assist him in swindling a rich American girl (Gladys Hulette) out of her inheritance. Co-written and directed by Tod Browning (FREAKS), this highly atmospheric silent drama with supernatural overtones isn't one of Browning's better known films. His usual collaborator Lon Chaney isn't in this one and the film's stars, Pringle and Tearle aren't very well known today. While not one of Browning's major movies, it remains an engrossing film mainly because of Browning's undertone which imbues the film with a sense of encroaching doom hovering over the proceedings. A minor but stylish movie. Pringle's costumes were designed by the famous Erte (aka Romaine De Tirtoff). With Robert Ober and David Torrence.