A hypnotist, a missing fiance, and two blackface comedians — 1932 Hollywood was WILD, baby.
A Gypsy violinist searches for her missing fiance, a circus worker who recently won a sweepstakes prize and was kidnapped by a hypnotist.
Practical Effects
Hypnosis effects done with spinning spirals and sheer 1930s audacity.
Acting
Ernest Torrence's hypnotist — camp villainy before it had a name.
Director
Mack Sennett
George Moran
Henry Johnson
Charles Mack
Egbert Jackson
Ernest Torrence
Prof. Horace S. Limberly - Hypnotist
Charles Murray
Charlie O'Brien
Wallace Ford
Bill Bogard
Maria Alba
Princess Mitzi
Marjorie Beebe
Pearl - the Maid
Herman Bing
Captain Otto Von Stormberg
Alexander Carr
Abe Shapiro
Matt McHugh
Drummer
Luis Alberni
Hungarian Consul
Mitchell Harris
Ringmaster
Hattie McDaniel
Powder Room Attendant
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mack Sennett, Keystone Cops king, directed this at 52 — talkies had already killed his silent empire, and this feels like a man throwing every remaining trick at the wall.
Maria Alba was a Spanish actress Hollywood consistently cast as 'exotic' — here she's 'Gypsy,' elsewhere she was Tahitian, Persian, whatever needed olive skin and a accent.
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