Miracles for Sale (1939)

Directed by

Tod Browning

Genre

mystery film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 11m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A magician turned detective is hired to protect a young woman at a party. When a murder occurs in a locked room, he uses his knowledge of illusions to solve the crime.

suspensefulmysteriousintellectuallight-heartedcleverwhimsicalstylishold-fashioned

What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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