Summary
A threadbare tailor, whose needle has grown arthritic with disuse, trains a mongrel to shred the garments of passing dandies, thereby stitching a booming trade from the tatters of humiliated silk. When the hound’s fangs snag the pantaloons of a haughty Moorish prince, the humiliation metastasizes into vendetta: both men discover they are riveted by the same almond-eyed girl whose laughter jingles like minted gold. The prince, equal parts perfumed aesthete and sadistic puppet-master, invites the tailor to a subterranean theater of shadows where grotesqueries—part gargoyle, part repressed id—slither across torch-lit walls. One furtive rub of a tarnished lamp detonates the narrative into a kaleidoscope of flying carpets, carnivorous architecture, and metamorphic justice; each new marvel peels another layer from the tailor’s cowardice until the man who once sold repairs for coin finally repairs himself, winning the girl not by sorcery but by a freshly forged spine.
Synopsis
A tailor employs a dog to tear men's clothes, so as to increase his business. He tries this stunt on a Moorish prince to his sorrow and the feud grows as they both fall in love with the same girl. The Prince lures the tailor into a dungeon where gruesome shapes appear. By rubbing the lamp he escapes only to go through more wild adventures until he wins the girl.
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