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28 August 1948 (USA) moreUser Comments:
Not So Mesmerizing moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | John Baragrey | ... | Anton Mesmer |
| Phyllis Morris | ... | Rich Woman |
| Marcia Mae Jones | ... | Blind Girl |
| Morris Ankrum | ... | Blind Girl's Father |
| John Nesbitt | ... | Narrator (voice) |
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)Fun Stuff
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This short, loosely based on a very small portion of the life of Dr. Franz Mesmer, is short on style, substance, and running time. Actually, very few facts are related here, and the desultory manner in which they are conveyed do nothing to help this very short short.
While not exactly the inventor of hypnotism, his social impact was of such an extent that the word mesmerized is derived from his name. The Fabulous Fraud is not a well made, or acted, documentary short, but at a mercifully crisp 11 minute running time it's still pretty difficult to get up a head of angry before the thing is over.
Another one of the little "space filler" numbers run on TCM in the early morning hours, these shorts are still fun to watch strictly for the "What the hell is this?" oddness of it.