Bluebeard
An early trick-film adaptation of a classic fairy tale about a sinister aristocrat and his doomed wives, blending theatrical horror with proto-cinematic spectacle.
A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.
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