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(1935) Claude Rains, Fay Wray, Ben Field, Mary Clare, Jane Baxter, Felix Aylmer. Rains is brilliant as a sideshow mind reader whose powers turn out to be real. Soon he is making a plethora of accurate predictions—deaths, accidents, horse racing results, etc. However, he is unable to control his prophecies until he realizes that he can only invoke them in the presence of a certain young woman, who threatens to make a shambles of his marriage to the beautiful Fay Wray. Things get worse when Rains is accused of creating a disaster he predicted. The climactic courtroom scene is a gem! The close-ups of Rains’ face while in trance are unforgettable. A very cool film that tends to be unfairly overlooked. From 35mm.
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