Warren William sells hair tonic and such at medicine shows, with the aid of Allen Jenkins and Clarence Muse. After seeing a mind reader in a carnival, he decides to get into that racket, and soon has a great crystal-ball scam, with "private readings" on the side. Unfortunately for this racket, he falls in love with Constance Cummings. She insists he give up the phony business, so he does. They get married. He's a bust as a Fuller Brush man, so it's back to the swami racket.
It's hard to believe that anything this cynical came from the man who wrote the lushly romantic ONE WAY PASSAGE, but Wilson Mizner did both. Considering he was hiding out in Hollywood, on the run from people he had sold Florida swamp land to, I figure this is what went on in his mind while he told the pretty stories to the suckers. It has the usual sparkling Warner Brothers cast, and even Robert Greig gets a role that isn't a butler!
It's hard to believe that anything this cynical came from the man who wrote the lushly romantic ONE WAY PASSAGE, but Wilson Mizner did both. Considering he was hiding out in Hollywood, on the run from people he had sold Florida swamp land to, I figure this is what went on in his mind while he told the pretty stories to the suckers. It has the usual sparkling Warner Brothers cast, and even Robert Greig gets a role that isn't a butler!