Miracles for Sale (1939)
Thrills! Chills! Laughs!
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.
- Date of release
- 1939-08-10
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (18)
- Runtime
- 1h 11m
- Genres
- Mystery, Crime, Comedy
- Director
- Tod Browning
Casting
- Robert Young — Michael Morgan
- Florence Rice — Judy Barclay
- Frank Craven — Dad Morgan
- Henry Hull — Dave Duvallo
- Lee Bowman — La Claire
- Cliff Clark — Inspector Marty Gavigan
- Astrid Allwyn — Mrs. Zelma La Claire
- Walter Kingsford — Colonel Watrous
- Frederick Worlock — Dr. Cesar Sabbatt
- Gloria Holden — Madame Rapport
- William Demarest — Quinn
- Harold Minjir — Tauro
Interesting facts
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 as portrayed by Robert Young. Don Diavolo, another series character in Rawson's work under his pseudonym, Stuart Towne, appears here as Dave Duvallo.
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