H. G. Wells - The man who could work miracles (1. Last 4 minutes missing, click on link at end of film to watch, apologies & thanks zh. George Mc. Whirter Fotheringay, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them. After being thrown out of a bar for what is thought to be a trick, he tests his powers and eventually sends a policeman to Hades by accident. Worried, he sends the police officer to San Francisco, and seeks advice from the local clergyman, Mr Maydig. Maydig, after having Fotheringay's powers demonstrated to him, quickly planning for reform of the world by means of miracle, but eventually Fotheringay orders a miracle which, due to clumsy wording, backfires. He relinquishes his power and returns to the time before he had it.(from IMDB)socky_7 production. Watch Man Who Could Work Miracles Movie JackieThe Man Who Could Work Miracles; Directed by: Lothar Mendes: Produced by: Alexander Korda: Written by: H. G. Wells Lajos Bíró: Starring: Roland Young Joan Gardner. Watch breaking news videos, viral videos and original video clips on CNN.com. Directed by Lothar Mendes, Alexander Korda. With Roland Young, Ralph Richardson, Edward Chapman, Ernest Thesiger. An ordinary man suddenly finds that anything he says. Cinderella 2015 Full Movie Free The action involving Thrones Stark loved ones has been fond of the particular impending warning 'Winter is Coming' yet their. The Man Who Could Work Miracles. The Man Who Could Work Miracles is a black- and- white 1. British fantasy- comedy film directed by the German- born American director Lothar Mendes.[1] Reputedly the best- known of Mendes' 2. H. G. Wells’s short story of the same name and stars Sir Ralph Richardson and Roland Young in a London Films production from the famous Hungarian- born British producer, Sir Alexander Korda. H. G. Wells himself worked on the adaptation, the plot revised to reflect Well's socialist frustrations with the British upper class, and the growing threat of Fascism and Nazism in Europe at the time, something to which Mendes, Korda and Wells were all committed to combating in their creative work.[2]Plot outline[edit]The film begins in the celestial realms, with three superhuman entities- -gods, or perhaps angels- -regarding the planet Earth - one of whom is played by a young, highly- made- up, shirtless George Sanders in an early role. Despairing of these "animals" that one of them continues to care about, two of them dare the third to conduct an experiment using these lesser creatures of that world to see if they can handle the kind of power over reality that might allow such beings to deserve to reach the stars. Choosing a human subject at random - though, necessarily, an ordinary if not downright foolish British subject - they bestow miraculous powers just short of their own upon one George Fotheringay, (Roland Young), an English middle- class haberdasher's assistant. Fotheringay enters the Long Dragon Pub and begins arguing with his friends about miracles and the impossibility of them.
America's Funniest Home Videos SUNDAYS 7|6c. Actor and Dancing with the Stars Season 19 Champion, Alfonso Ribeiro, is named new host of ABC’s America’s Funniest. Presents latest news and features with special sections on diet and fitness, conditions and parenting. Includes video clips, health library, special reports and. During this argument he calls upon his "will" to force a change and inadvertently causes a miracle: he makes an oil lamp turn upside down, without anyone touching it and with the flame burning steadily downwards rather than righting itself. He soon runs out of his miracle- sustaining willpower and is thrown out of the pub for spilling oil on the floor and causing a commotion. When he arrives home, he performs the same trick with a small candle and finds that it works. He is so overjoyed that he spends the better part of the night working miracles such as lifting his table, lifting his bed, enlarging a candle- extinguisher to a brightly painted cone, making a kitten appear under it, and turning his bed into a cornucopia of fruits and fluffy bunnies. American cinematographer Harold Rosson, whom MGM frequently loaned out for British productions, has fun with what were still novelty special effects in 1. The next day, he makes his miracles known to the public - or rather that small portion of the clothing store where he works, impressing the girls with vanishing freckles and a co- worker with how quickly he can make shirts fold neatly and put themselves away. A policeman discovers these powers; when he begins to annoy Fotheringay, Fotheringay curses, telling him to "Go to blazes [hell]!" – where the poor bobby then finds himself surrounded by flames and swirling smoke. Fotheringay is horrified at his unintended action, and has the cop relocated to San Francisco where he finds himself in the midst of a traffic jam, and chased by American policemen himself. Because Fotheringay cannot decide on how to use his newfound powers, he contacts Mr. Maydig, the local vicar. The vicar thinks up a plan to bring about a Golden Age and have Fotheringay abolish famine, plague, war and poverty—and, while they're at it, the British ruling class. They celebrate this by playing a miraculous trick on the local gentry, Colonel Wistanley (quite severely but endearingly overplayed by Ralph Richardson, who appears to be made- up for the stage, not film) having his whisky turn to undrinkable soap water, and his swords and weapon collection turn into a wild display of agricultural tools. When Whistanley hears about Fotheringay, he's baffled and then quite threatened by this vicar- inspired plan to change the world as he knows it, which he believes works just fine - Fotheringay points out that, of course, it works fine for the Colonel, but not really the rest of them, himself included. Exasperated at being unable to change the man's mind, the Colonel consults with his equally embattled fellow gentry and decides the only sensible solution is to shoot the man (his guns have helpfully not been converted by the earlier miracle). His first shot misses Fotheringay, who manages to made himself magically invulnerable. Realizing that others wish to exploit him for their own ends - even the vicar - this incident inspires Fotheringay not to trigger a Golden Age after all, but instead to create an old- fashioned kingdom in which he is the center of the universe. In a fit of reckless pompousness, Fotheringay changes the Colonel's house into a spectacular palace of real gold and marble. He then summons up all the pretty girls, not to mention the Colonel's entire regiment, dressed s Beefeaters, after which he summons the butlers in Essex, the leaders of the world, the teachers, musicians, priests, etc. He dresses up like a king and appoints the girl he loves as queen. He then commands the leaders of the world to create a utopia, free of greed, war, plague, famine, jealousy, and toil. Maydig begs Fotheringay to wait until the following day, so Fotheringay buys some time by making the Earth stop rotating. Alas, Fotheringay fails to consider the basic physics of the rotation of the planet and sends his palace, all living creatures and objects whirling off the world's surface. Civilization and all life (save Fotheringay) are obliterated as everything in the world flies through the air and is dashed to pieces. The desperate and contrite Fotheringay calls on his powers one last time to put things back as they were before he ever entered the pub the day before, willing away his power to work miracles. Fotheringay appears again in the pub as in the early scenes of the film, again tries the trick with the lamp, and fails. References[edit]^Destination Hollywood: The Influence of Europeans on American Filmmaking by Larry Langman p. British Cinema and the Manipulation of Public Opinion During the Inter- war Years, by Merle Kenneth Peirce, 2. External links[edit]Streaming audio.
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