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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 Merlini
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.
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.
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A maker (Robert Young) of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue (Florence Rice) likely to be murdered.
- Mystery & Thriller
Merlini the Magician, Clayton Rawson's crime-solving illusionist, has been singularly ill-used by Hollywood, having appeared in a mere two films, "starring" in only one. Miracles for Sale compounds the oversight by rechristening Merlini as "Michael Morgan", in the person of Robert Young.
Review by Rick Burin ★★★. Horror maestro Tod Browning's final film is a light murder mystery set around the world of the occult, with (mostly) rational conjuror Robert Young helping the police work out who killed a creepy old dude obsessed with demons.
Miracles for Sale is a film directed by Tod Browning with Robert Young, Florence Rice, Frank Craven, Henry Hull .... Year: 1939. Original title: Miracles for Sale. Synopsis: Mike Morgan creates the illusions that magicians use in their shows.
1939. USA. 35mm. 71 minutes. Browning’s last film, adapted from mystery novelist Clayton Rawson’s Death from a Top Hat, is a briskly paced locked-room whodunnit that showcases the director’s fascination with the moral implications of professional magic-making.
Robert Young is a retired magician who now sells tricks to the other performers in his former trade. Shortly into the story, a magician is murdered such that Morgan and other magicians are all suspects.
