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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 ...
Miracles for Sale: Directed by Tod Browning. With Robert Young, Florence Rice, Frank Craven, Henry Hull. Retired performer Mike Morgan sells original illusions to fellow magicians, and although he believes in the supernatural, likes to expose sham psychics.
Miracles For Sale - (Original Trailer) A magician turns detective to investigate murder and a phony seance in Miracles For Sale (1939), directed by Tod Browning and starring Robert Young. Film Details
A maker (Robert Young) of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue (Florence Rice) likely to be murdered.
Mike Morgan creates the illusions that magicians use in their shows. While his business is Miracles for Sale, his hobby is exposing fake spiritualists. At the club, he is invited to attend the calling from the other world by Sabbatt, but Judy wants Mike to help her instead.
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.
While Robert Young is not close to the same level of bombast as Tod Browning's other stars like Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, or Bela Lugosi, his annoyingly cocky ex-magician, current illusion builder - cue the title: Miracles for Sale - fits the story's mold to a T.
