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The Witching Hour

5.3 69 mins Mystery   Drama   1934
Paramount Pictures  
Director(s): Henry Hathaway

Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently hypnotizes young Clay Thorne, Thorne kills an enemy of Brookfield's while under a trance. No one believes Brookfield's protestations that Thorne is innocent of any murderous intent, so Brookfield teams up with retired lawyer Martin Prentice in hopes of saving the young man from the gallows.

Casts of The Witching Hour

Guy Standing

as Judge Martin Prentice

John Halliday

as Jack Brookfield

William Frawley

as Jury Foreman

Judith Allen

as Nancy Brookfield

Tom Brown

as Clay Thorne

Olive Tell

as Mrs. Helen Thorne

Richard Carle

as Lew Ellinger

Ralf Harolde

as Frank Hardmuth

Purnell Pratt

as District Attorney Robinson

Frank Sheridan

as Police Chief

Gertrude Michael

as Margaret Price

Ferdinand Gottschalk

as Dr. von Strohn

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