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Other articles where Miracles for Sale is discussed: Tod Browning: Final films: After that came only Miracles for Sale (1939), a B-film mystery with Henry Hull as an escapologist and Robert Young as a stage magician trying to expose a fake spiritualist.
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Summaries. Retired performer Mike Morgan sells original illusions to fellow magicians, and although he believes in the supernatural, likes to expose sham psychics. This involves him in some mysterious murders. Mike Morgan creates the illusions that magicians use in their shows. While his business is Miracles for Sale, his hobby is exposing fake ...
Aug 5, 2019 · In other words, for entertainment purposes he creates miracles for sale. Morgan, also, has earned a rep for uncovering fake mediums who thrive on cheating unsuspecting clients. When the pretty Judy Barclay ( Florence Rice ) escapes a man following her by running into Morgan’s workplace studio, she gets his attention by asking his help in debunking the psychic Madame Rapport ( Gloria Holden ).
Browning’s last film is a briskly paced locked-room whodunnit that showcases the director’s fascination with the moral implications of professional magic-making, centered on a debonair ex-magician and debunker of fraudulent spiritualists who stumbles into a murder investigation around the death of a mysterious “demonologist.”
Jun 22, 2022 · Derren proves it is possible to take someone from the streets of the UK, and turn them into a faith healer in the USA. Along the way we learn how to scam peo...
Miracles for Sale compounds the oversight by rechristening Merlini as "Michael Morgan", in the person of Robert Young. The picture starts well, with a grisly political execution revealed to be an elaborate bit of stage magic perpetrated by the personable Morgan.
