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Miracles for Sale is a american film of genre Crime directed by Tod Browning released in USA on 14 august 1939 with Robert Young

Miracles for Sale (1939)

Miracles for Sale
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Released in USA 14 august 1939
Length 1h8
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Crime
Rating61% 3.09993.09993.09993.09993.0999

Miracles for Sale is a 1939 American mystery film directed by Tod Browning, and starring Robert Young and Florence Rice. It was Browning's final film as a director.

The film is based on a locked-room mystery novel by well-known mystery writer Clayton Rawson, Death From a Top Hat, which was the first to feature his series detective The Great Merlini. In this film, Merlini's character has been changed into Michael Morgan (The Amazing Morgan) as portrayed by Robert Young. Don Diavolo, another series character in Rawson's work under his pseudonym, Stuart Towne, appears here as "Dave Duvallo".

Synopsis

Michael Morgan, créateur de numéros de magie, traque les imposteurs en la matière. Il rencontre Judy Barclay, marquée par un terrible secret, et le Docteur Sabbatt, un "démonologue". Ce dernier est bientôt assassiné, alors que Judy échappe à une agression... Les suspects pour le meurtre de Sabbatt, retrouvé mort au milieu d'un pentacle magique dessiné sur le sol de son appartement fermé de l'intérieur, sont Dave Duvallo, un roi de l'évasion ; le virtuose des tours de cartes Tauro ; le couple Al et Zelma le Clair qui se produit dans des numéros de transmissions de pensée ; la spirite Madame Rapaport et le colonel Watrous qui cherche à démasquer les charlatans.

Actors

Robert Young

(Michael Morgan)Florence Rice

(Judy Barclay)Frank Craven

(Dad Morgan)Henry Hull

(Dave Duvallo)Lee Bowman

(La Claire)
And :
William Demarest
Astrid Allwyn
Walter Kingsford
Frederick Worlock
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