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  1. Jul 11, 2023 · I have watched the movie "The Ninth Gate" several times. I am stumped on one of the three books Corso mentions when he is evaluating the Manhattan collection of the poor man in the wheelchair. His daughter and son-in-law are wanting quick cash for his collection.

    • In the film, the ancient book, The Nine Gates, displays an inverted pentagram on its cover to represent its Satanic content. However, the inverted pentagram only became associated with Satanism and evil in the late 19th century, due largely to the work of the French occultist Eliphas Levi.
    • All engravings appearing in The Nine Gates were commissioned for the novel by author Arturo Pérez-Reverte himself. The only exception is the one showing the girl riding a dragon, which was altered to make it appear similar to The Girl’s (Emmanuelle Seigner) face.
    • The cigarettes that Liana smokes are called Black Devils.
    • Johnny Depp didn’t take his usual $10 million dollar fee for the chance to work with director Roman Polanski.
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  3. The Ninth Gate is a 1999 neo-noir horror thriller film directed, produced, and co-written by Roman Polanski. An international co-production between the United States, Portugal, France, and Spain, the film is loosely based upon Arturo Pérez-Reverte's 1993 novel The Club Dumas.

  4. The Ninth Gate: Directed by Roman Polanski. With Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner. Dean, a rare book dealer, is hired to find the last two copies of a text that holds the key to summoning the devil.

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    • Mystery, Thriller
    • Roman Polanski
    • 2000-03-10
  5. Watchlist. NEW. Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) specializes in tracking down rare and exotic volumes for collectors. Boris Balkan (Frank Langella) has recently acquired a seventeenth-century satanic...

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  7. An all-expenses-paid international search for a rare copy of the book 'The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows' brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and Satanic worship.