The Mad Magician (1954)

Review: The Mad Magician (1954)

Director: John Brahm

Cast: Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Eva Gabor, John Emery, Donald Randolph,

Vincent Price
Vincent Price
Mary Murphy
Mary Murphy
Eva Gabor
Eva Gabor
John Emery
John Emery
Donald Randolph
Donald Randolph

Plot: Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut down by capricious manager Ross Ormond who wants Gallico's brilliant buzz saw effect for the act of The Great Rinaldi, an established star. With this defeat, and the humiliation of having already lost his wife Claire to Ormond, Gallico decides it is time to take matters into his own hands.

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A post-Covid 3D evening

A post-Covid 3D evening

To mark our emergence from the Covid lockdown, my friend Steve and I ate barbecued bratwurst and watched a couple of movies which emerged from his big 3D TV screen: Owen Crump’s Korean war docudrama Cease Fire (1953) and John Brahm’s […]

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