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Summary:
A phony spiritualist is working on a scam involving a banker's daughter. He mesmerizes the daughter in the hopes that it will lead him to extort money from the banker. One of the swami's accomplices turns out to be an undercover reporter working on a story to expose the spiritualist. When the reporter confides to the banker's daughter his true identity, another of the swami's henchmen overhears and tells the phony mystic. Trapping the banker's daughter and the reporter, the spiritualist demands money from the banker or else.
Notes:
Age group: NR.
Downloadable video file.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: OverDrive Media Console (file size: 311518KB).
Title from title screen (viewed on June 14, 2007).
Mischa Auer, Phyllis Barrington, Earl McCarty.
Photographed by James Diamond.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1933.
Also available as VHS.
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