The Crazy Ray
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Director Rene Clair Duration | 7.2/10 Genre Short, Sci-Fi Screenplay Rene Clair Writer Rene Clair | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language Silent filmFrench intertitles Release date 26 February 1925 (1925-02-26) Initial release December 26, 1924 (France) Cast (Albert), Charles Martinelli (The scientist), Albert Préjean (The pilot), Madeleine Rodrigue (Hesta, the airline passenger), Myla Seller (The niece / daughter of the scientist), Antoine Stacquet (The rich man)Similar movies Mission: Impossible , Inglourious Basterds , The Bourne Ultimatum , The Da Vinci Code , Pacific Rim , Now You See Me |
Paris Qui Dort (literally "Paris which sleeps") is a 1924 French science fiction comedy silent short film directed by René Clair. Also released as Le rayon de la mort, its international English-language titles were The Crazy Ray and Paris Asleep. It has also been released in the USA as At 3:25.
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- The crazy ray music by steve heather andy moor joe williamson and yannis kyriakides
- Plot summary
- Cast
- Home media
- References

The crazy ray music by steve heather andy moor joe williamson and yannis kyriakides
Plot summary

The film is about a mad doctor who uses a magic ray on citizens which causes them to freeze in strange and often embarrassing positions. People who are unaffected by the ray begin to loot Paris.
Cast
Home media
The film is available on the Region 1 Criterion DVD release of another Clair film, Under the Roofs of Paris (1930). It is also available for free at the Internet Archive.
References
The Crazy Ray Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA
Paris Qui Dort IMDb The Crazy Ray themoviedb.org
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