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4.7/10 • 6

1933-02-280h 59m

DramaMysteryRomance

A phony spiritualist hypnotizes the daughter of a wealthy banker in a scheme to swindle the banker out of his money. A reporter investigating the swami discovers the plot, determines to expose it.

Directors
Dorothy Davenport, Melville Shyer
Writters
Willis Kent
Editors
Willis Kent, S. Roy Luby

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  1. Mischa Auer

    Mischa Auer

    Swami Yomurda

  2. Phyllis Barrington

    Phyllis Barrington

    Clare Walton

  3. Earl McCarthy

    Earl McCarthy

    Jimmy Reeves

  4. Ralph Lewis

    Ralph Lewis

    John Walton

  5. Fletcher Norton

    Fletcher Norton

    Dan Lukes

  6. Mae Busch

    Mae Busch

    Mame

  7. Mona Lisa

    Mona Lisa

    Princess Karami

  8. Al Bridge

    Al Bridge

    George Hunter

  9. J. Frank Glendon

    J. Frank Glendon

    Meehan - Newspaper Editor

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John Chard

Dec 4, 2018

4/10

Hokum Bokum. Victims of the Beyond (AKA: Sucker Money) is directed by Melville Shyer and Dorothy Davenport (as Dorothy Reid) and written by Willis Kent. It stars Mischa Auer, Phyllis Barrington, Earl McCarthy, Ralph Lewis and Mae Busch. For the era it was made this deserves credit for being a fore runner to a splinter of films dealing with spiritualism - notably as a fake exercise. Unfortunately for dramatic worth it has nothing of note to offer. Plot essentially has fake medium Swami Yomurda (Auer) using his nefarious means to swindle persons of wealth out of money. Enter an undercover reporter who is intrepid in trying to unmask the scammers and save the day. The End! It's all a bit creaky, the direction, the acting and the production as a whole really doesn't have much going for it. The premise at the core is interesting enough to hold attention for the short one hour run time - even if the first fifteen minutes drag and hardly entice one to stay through the rest of the play. Plenty of séance scenes are decently played, and thus rewards those into such shenanigans, but it becomes tiresome and the writing simply isn't good enough to drive home some thriller possibilities. 4/10

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
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