MGM
Directed by Tod Browning
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)
Robert Young designs elaborate tricks for stage magicians. After one of his customers is found dead on the floor in a pentagram, pretty Florence Rice comes to him for help. Unsure of her motives, Young turns detective to uncover the killer. The magician angle complicates this lighthearted mystery, filled with trap doors and disguises, nothing is what it appears, and thus solving the mystery difficult if not impossible. The resolution is complicated and unsatisfying.
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