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Sucker Money (1933)

NR Feb 28, 1933 Drama, Mystery, Romance 0h 59m
47%
User Score
4.7/10

Overview

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.

Dorothy Davenport
Director
Melville Shyer
Director
Willis Kent
Writer

Top Billed Cast

Mischa Auer
Mischa Auer

Swami Yomurda
Phyllis Barrington
Phyllis Barrington

Clare Walton
Earl McCarthy
Earl McCarthy

Jimmy Reeves
Ralph Lewis
Ralph Lewis

John Walton
Fletcher Norton
Fletcher Norton

Dan Lukes
Mae Busch
Mae Busch

Mame
Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa

Princess Karami
Al Bridge
Al Bridge

George Hunter
J. Frank Glendon
J. Frank Glendon

Meehan - Newspaper Editor

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A review by John Chard
Written on December 4, 2018

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 fo...

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