EXPLOITATION; 1930S
19:01:50:00,Society woman asks people to put paper in silver bowl, Women get ready for seance, Putting pieces of paper in fire, CU bored man (or skeptical), CU nameplate on house: HOUDINI, Mrs. Houdini looks at photo of Harry, she talks of not believing that Harry will contact her, Headlines about busting phony spirit racket, Phony mystic or fortune teller, Women in cemetery, Phony mystic with turban tries to fake two women into believing he is bringing back dead husband, woman faints dead!, Great fortune teller images (no crystal ball), Reporter on phone, rewrite man on phone, CU book title "ARE THE DEAD ALIVE?", Society woman on phone, Smoke rises from various money head idols, Woman lays flowers at grave (rear screen), consoled by Mrs. Houdini, CU ring on male hand, Great phony seance sequence, man with strange hat and robes tries to put one over on group with holding up hands and falling faint, Mentalist/fortune teller, Mentalist gives instructions to women wearing wedding gown-type outfit and her mother, he tells her to drink from special glass, gives her remains of a mummy with mumbo jumbo instructions, Woman thrown remain from side of ship, Phony Arabs (in swami/sheik garb) await arrival of women, Woman consults wise man with black beard, Looking into crystal ball (hard to see ball), CU ring on finger, Worried "Arabs", one takes drink, Arab mystic with incense, prays, demands gods appear, Woman speaks to Arab wise man with flowing white beard and hair (very godlike), he prays with her and rubs crystal ball, Montage in Nostradamus fashion with newsreel footage of India natives dancing, coming to sacred land, playing cymbals and horns, Arab trumpeting, Gunga Din-like Arab with arms crossed in trance, Man sits on bed of nails (not that great), Arabs bring offerings (might be taken for servants or slaves), Phony fortune teller, Indians bathe in river, Phony seance complete with ghost, small gong, incense, the whole bit, Man speaks through long megaphone like horn ("you fraud, you faker"), Mrs. Houdini sits with rest of cast, Nice THE END title card with religious-type image, End with warning to watch out for phony mystics