SAT. MAR 30 AT 2:00 PM
Sat Mar 30, 2024
The Mind Reader
- RUNTIME
- 1h 10m
- RATING
- NR
- DIRECTOR
- Roy Del Ruth
- CAST
- Warren William, Constance Cummings, Allen Jenkins, Natalie Moorhead, Mayo Methot, Clarence Muse
SYNOPSIS
Originally released April 1, 1933
This proto-noir rarity — presented in 35mm — follows a trio of itinerant con-men working a “spook racket” around the country. All well and good, until “Chandra the Great” (pre-Code cad Warren William) falls for a pretty and gullible rube (Costance Cummings). Based on a story by the legendary Wilson Mizner, himself something of an expert in scams and swindles. A brisk 70 minutes of pre-Code fun, and one of the first films to “pull back the curtain” on phony “spiritualists.”
FORMAT: 35mm
This proto-noir rarity — presented in 35mm — follows a trio of itinerant con-men working a “spook racket” around the country. All well and good, until “Chandra the Great” (pre-Code cad Warren William) falls for a pretty and gullible rube (Costance Cummings). Based on a story by the legendary Wilson Mizner, himself something of an expert in scams and swindles. A brisk 70 minutes of pre-Code fun, and one of the first films to “pull back the curtain” on phony “spiritualists.”
FORMAT: 35mm
