The Mad Magician
Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut down by capricious manager Ross Ormond who wants Gallico's brilliant buzz saw effect for the act of The Great Rinaldi, an established star. With this defeat, and the humiliation of having already lost his wife Claire to Ormond, Gallico decides it is time to take matters into his own hands.
F for Fake
Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.
The Wizard of Gore
A talk show hostess and her boyfriend investigate a shady magician who has the ability to hypnotize and control people's thoughts in order to stage gory onstage illusions using his powers of mindbending.
The Wizard of Gore
In the darkly phantasmagorical world of the carnival magician and sideshow hypnotist, the gruesome "illusions" of Montag the Magnificent are unique in that they seem to become retroactive reality long after the the tricks are done. Is it coincidence, or circumstantial evidence of the world's most diabolically ingenious murders? When an underground journalist begins to investigate the strange deaths, the truth proves to be far more bizarre and disturbing than anything he or his readers might have imagined.
Oz the Great and Powerful
Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz where the inhabitants assume he's the great wizard of prophecy, there to save Oz from the clutches of evil.
Man Down
When a U.S. Marine returns home from Afghanistan, he finds that the place he once called home is no better than the battlefields he fought on overseas. Accompanied by his best friend, he searches desperately for the whereabouts of his estranged son and wife. In their search, the two intercept a man carrying vital information about his family.
Focus
Nicky, an accomplished con artist, gets romantically involved with his disciple Jess but later ends their relationship. Years later, she returns as a femme fatale to spoil his plans.
Harlequin
Up-and-coming senator Nick Rast's young son is terminally ill with leukemia. A mysterious faith healer, Gregory Wolfe, appears and seems to cure the boy. Rast's wife Sandy falls in love with Wolfe, but the powerful interests behind Rast's career, represented by geriatric monster Doc Wheelan are less happy with events.
Midori
After losing her parents, young flower selling Midori is put up by a fairground group. She is abused and forced to slavery, until the arrival of an enigmatic magician of short stature, who gives her hope for a better future.
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John Brahm
Director
Vincent Price
as
Don Gallico / Gallico the Great
Donald Randolph
as
Ross Ormond
Orson Welles
Director
Laurence Harvey
as
Himself
Don Ameche
as
Himself
Paul Stewart
as
Himself - Special Participant
Joseph Cotten
as
Himself - Special Participant
Ray Sager
as
Montag the Magnificent
Brad Dourif
as
Doctor Chong
Kip Pardue
as
Edmund Bigelow
Joshua John Miller
as
Jinky
Crispin Glover
as
Montag the Magnificent
Sam Raimi
Director
Rachel Weisz
as
Evanora
Joey King
as
Girl in Wheelchair / China Girl
James Franco
as
Oz
Mila Kunis
as
Theodora
Jose Pablo Cantillo
as
2nd LT. Taylor
Gary Oldman
as
Counselor Peyton
Shia LaBeouf
as
Gabriel Drummer
Kate Mara
as
Natalie Drummer
Adrian Martinez
as
Farhad
Margot Robbie
as
Jess
BD Wong
as
Liyuan
Will Smith
as
Nicky
Simon Wincer
Director
Mark Spain
as
Alex Rast
Broderick Crawford
as
Doc Wheelan
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