The Spectacle Maker Poster
MOVIEmeter
SEE RANK
Down 39,965 this week

The Spectacle Maker (1934)

APPROVED 21 min  -  Drama | Fantasy | Short  -   20 September 1934 (USA)
6.7
Your rating:
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -/10 X  
Ratings: 6.7/10 from 26 users  
Reviews: 3 user

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.

Director:

John Farrow

Writers:

Frank Harris (story), John Farrow
 Loading+Watchlist

Watch it

Buy it from Amazon »

Related Lists

image of title
a list of 73 titles by JeiceWarrior created 3 months ago
 
image of title
a list of 3,621 titles by troyspears created 7 months ago
 

Connect with IMDb


Pre-Order the Kindle Fire
Edit

Cast

Uncredited cast:
Nora Cecil Nora Cecil ...
Duchess (uncredited)
Harvey Clark Harvey Clark ...
The Grand Duke (uncredited)
Cora Sue Collins Cora Sue Collins ...
The Little Princess (uncredited)
Nigel De Brulier Nigel De Brulier ...
The Man in Black (uncredited)
Sumner Getchell Sumner Getchell ...
Lens Buyer (uncredited)
Angelo Rossitto Angelo Rossitto ...
Court Jester (uncredited)
Christian Rub Christian Rub ...
Hans Schmidt (uncredited)
Douglas Scott Douglas Scott ...
Peter (uncredited)
William Tannen William Tannen ...
The Grand Duke as Seen thru the Magic Spectacle (uncredited)
Robert Taylor ...
The Duchess's Paramour (uncredited)
Edit

Storyline

A stranger dressed in black visits the shop of eyeglass maker Hans Schmidt. He asks Schmidt to make a lens that shows only beauty to anyone who uses it. Before he can make the lens, he must search for the answer his grandson's question, "What is beauty?" A priest at a monastery gives him a holy book and suggests that if he reads the book, he will find the answer. After reading the book, he makes the lens. The country's grand duke visits Schmidt's shop with his wife. They try the lens and are so pleased, they take it back to their castle. The stranger visits Schmidt again and requests that he now make a lens that shows the truth, because not everything is beautiful. The priest at the monastery says Schmidt will find truth in the same holy book. After he makes the lens, the grand duke and his wife return to try it out. Written by David Glagovsky <dglagovsky@prodigy.net>  

Plot Summary | Add Synopsis

Plot Keywords:

Fairy Tale | Colortone Musical

Genres:

Drama | Fantasy | Short

Edit

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

(USA) See more »

Company Credits

Production Co:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) See more »
Show detailed company contact information on IMDbPro »

Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1
See full technical specs »
Edit

Did You Know?

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. Rub also dubbed the character's voice in the 1940 animated feature. See more »