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Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders is a american film of genre Fantasy released in USA on 27 august 1996 with Ernest Borgnine
Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders (1996)
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Add to a movie listMerlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders is a 1996 film starring Ernest Borgnine. In spite of what the title might imply, this is more of a horror film than a child-friendly fantasy movie. Borgnine plays a grandfather telling his grandson a story about the wizard Merlin opening up a store in modern-day America. He tells him two separate stories about Merlin and the store.
Synopsis
Although the opening segment implies that Merlin's magical interventions in people's lives are intended to have a benign effect, in practice this proves to be far from the case.Actors
Ernest Borgnine
(Grandfather)
Bunny Summers
(Zurella)
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