Sucker Money Reviews

The spiritualist con games are examined here as newspaper reporter McCarthy is after Auer and his gang of phonies. Barrington is a wealthy man's daughter. She has fallen under Auer's power and is involved in an oil scam. As events turn against him, the mystic and his gang get rough. A big chase scene after a murder provides the suspense at the end. The film, showing lots of seance action, attempts to expose the fake spiritualism game. The film was codirected by Dorothy Reid. She was the widow of silent film star Wallace Reid who died in the early 1920s from complications incurred because of a long drug habit. After her husband died, Dorothy Reid tried to expose the evil of drug use in the film industry. After this campaign, she decided to work against another ill, the mystic racket.