Religious Racketeers (1938)
1938 · Feature film · 67 min · dir. Frank O'Connor
- Crime
- Mystery
Synopsis
A wealthy young woman, racked with guilt because she wasn't there when her mother died, is so desperate to contact her that she gets involved with a phony mystic who promises to put her in touch with her mother's spirit, but who is really after her money. A reporter who loves the young woman sets out to expose the phony "psychic" for the charlatan he is.
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Frank O'Connor
- Writer
- Frank O'Connor
- Studio
- Fanchon Royer Pictures
- Released
- 1938-07-07
- Running time
- 67 minutes
Cast & crew
Frank O'Connor Director
Robert Fiske- Helene LeBerthon
Arthur Gardner
Betty Compson- David Kerman
Robert Frazer
Mrs. Harry Houdini
Jimmy Aubrey
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★ · Houdini must have turned over in his grave · picfixer · 2011-12-28
A turkey with all the trimmings - bad screenplay, bad acting, bad direction and for dessert, primitive camera work. Repetitive beyond belief, with scene after scene being essentially the same. Insulting to Egyptians and Hindus, and to these sins you can add the exploitation of Harry Houdini's widow, who appears briefly. So tedious it seems twice as long as it actually is. A truly awful B-feature. Other than this I liked it. (a.k.a. "The Mystic Circle Murder")
