The Phantom Carriage

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Phantom Carriage, 1921.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Phantom Carriage, 1921.

Deep in flashbacks depicting his own downfall, jailed Swedish family man David (director and screenwriter Victor Sjostrom) learns that his younger brother (Einar Axelsson) is also a victim of his misdeeds, in the horror-fantasy based on the novel by Selma Lagerlof, The Phantom Carriage, 1922.

In a Stockholm cemetery, near midnight on New Year’s Eve, David (director and screenwriter Victor Sjostrom) is accidentally killed by fellow drunks trying to get him to attend to family business, invoking the legend, and deceased Georges (Tore Svennberg) appears, in The Phantom Carriage, 1922.

Director and screenwriter Victor Sjostrom plays ne’er-do-well David, in a flashback recalling his dissolute mentor Georges (Tore Svennberg), who introduces the story of the deathly vehicle, ending the first segment of social commentary-horror hybrid, The Phantom Carriage, 1922.