The Man Who Could Work Miracles
The Man Who Could Work Miracles is a blackandwhite 1936 British fantasycomedy film directed by the Germanborn American director Lothar Mendes. Reputedly the bestknown of Mendesfilms, its a greatly expanded version of H. G. Wellss short story of the same name and stars Sir Ralph Richardson and Roland Young in a London Films production from the famous Hungarianborn British producer, Sir Alexander Korda. H.G. Wells himself worked on the adaptation, the plot revised to reflect Wells socialist frustrations with the British upper class, and the growing threat of Fascism and Nazism in Europe at the time, something to which Mendes, Korda and Wells were all committed to combating in their creative work.
When he arrives home, he performs the same trick with a small candle and finds that it works. He is so overjoyed that he spends the better part of the night working miracles such as lifting his table, lifting his bed, enlarging a candleextinguisher to a brightly painted cone, making a kitten appear under it, and turning his bed into a cornucopia of fruits and fluffy bunnies. American cinematographer Harold Rosson, whom MGM frequently loaned out for British productions, has fun with what were still novelty special effects in 1936, using lockeddown cameras to create chairs and tables that moved by themselves and appear and disappear at whim.The next day, he makes his miracles known to the public or rather that small portion of the clothing store where he works, impressing the girls with vanishing freckles and a coworker with how quickly he can make shirts fold neatly and put themselves away. A policeman discovers these powers when he begins to annoy Fotheringay, Fotheringay curses, telling him to Go to blazes hell where the poor bobby then finds himself surrounded by flames and swirling smoke. Fotheringay is horrified at his unintended action, and has the cop relocated to San Francisco where he finds himself in the midst of a traffic jam, and chased by American policemen himself. ........
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