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.
Acting
Robert Fiske commits to psychic hokum with magnificent hamminess.
Production
Spooky seance sets that probably reused props from five other films.
Director
Frank O'Connor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'psychic medium' con was rampant in 1930s America; this film rode a wave of exposé journalism targeting spiritualist frauds. Houdini had spent years debunking exactly these scams.
Arthur Gardner, playing heroic reporter Elliot Cole, would later become a prolific TV producer—ironically making actual media rather than just exposing fakes. Betty Compson was a major silent star already sliding into B-movie territory by 1938.
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