***SPOILERS*** Story of a depression era con artist who tries to make a living off other peoples problems. Many in fact which he himself creates.
Calling himself "Chandra the Magnifient" Warren Williams' mind reading act has become the talk of the town in any town that he stays in. That's until his act is exposed and he's run out, on a rail, of it. One of those whom William empresses with his "mind reading" powers is the very naive Sylvia Roberts who's friends pocketbook he had swiped by Frank Franklin who, together with "Sam the Music Man", is part of William's "mind reading" act. With William finding the pocketbook, with his "mind reading" powers, a very impressionable Sylvia falls heads over heels for him. It's only later that Sylvia gets second thoughts about "Chandra" when one of his clients Jenny confronts him at his office in how he destroyed hers as well as her boyfriends lives with his totally inaccurate predictions in them not being suited for each other!
This lead Jenny to marry someone else who treated her like dirt and had her boyfriend deeply depressed in Jenny leaving him for another man kill himself! With nothing left to live for and feeling like a fool in listening to this double-talking charlatan Jenny then did the only thing left for her to do: Walk out of William's office and jump down an empty elevator shaft killing herself! With Sylvia now threatening to leave him William decides to go straight as a Garrow Brush door to door salesman only to get back in the mind reading racket at the urging of his friend and partner in the mind rereading business Frank Franklin who's now a limousine driver in NYC.
William now calling himself Dr. Munro opens up a private detective office in downtown Manhattan where he uses his "brain power" to find out if his clients, mostly wealthy women, husbands are cheating on them. Off course William or Dr. Munro gets a little help from his friend Frank Franklin. It's Franklin who gets the inside dope, on his job as a driver for the rich and famous, about William's clients husbands knowing exactly when their not at home and then having William use that to fool their wives in telling them that they were out partying with other women.
This leads one of William's, or Dr. Munro, women clients Ann Holman to believe that her loyal husband Don is cheating on her due to the false information that he gave her about him. It just happened that Ann is a good friend of William's wife Sylvia who has no idea that he's in fact Dr. Munro. Syliva then goes to Dr. Munro's office to have it out with him in what he did in destroying her friends-Ann-marriage.
***SPOILERS*** As things turned out it was Mr. Holman who beat Syliva to Dr. Munro's office and in a violent confrontation with him he ended up getting shot and killed by William who made his escape through the back door without his wife Sylvia ever seeing him! On the lam, in Juarez Mexico, with his wife Sylvia left holding the bag in not telling the police about his whereabouts, which she has no knowledge of, a very distraught and guilt ridden William for the first time in his life gets an attack of guilty consciences and decides to turn himself into the police, back in NYC, and face the music. William ends up receiving a 2 to 10 year sentence on a conviction of involuntarily homicide-or self defense-in Mr. Holman's death. The worst thing in all this is that as William was sent to spend at least the next two years behind bars Prohibition was repealed! Something he's been waiting for almost 15 years to happen.
Calling himself "Chandra the Magnifient" Warren Williams' mind reading act has become the talk of the town in any town that he stays in. That's until his act is exposed and he's run out, on a rail, of it. One of those whom William empresses with his "mind reading" powers is the very naive Sylvia Roberts who's friends pocketbook he had swiped by Frank Franklin who, together with "Sam the Music Man", is part of William's "mind reading" act. With William finding the pocketbook, with his "mind reading" powers, a very impressionable Sylvia falls heads over heels for him. It's only later that Sylvia gets second thoughts about "Chandra" when one of his clients Jenny confronts him at his office in how he destroyed hers as well as her boyfriends lives with his totally inaccurate predictions in them not being suited for each other!
This lead Jenny to marry someone else who treated her like dirt and had her boyfriend deeply depressed in Jenny leaving him for another man kill himself! With nothing left to live for and feeling like a fool in listening to this double-talking charlatan Jenny then did the only thing left for her to do: Walk out of William's office and jump down an empty elevator shaft killing herself! With Sylvia now threatening to leave him William decides to go straight as a Garrow Brush door to door salesman only to get back in the mind reading racket at the urging of his friend and partner in the mind rereading business Frank Franklin who's now a limousine driver in NYC.
William now calling himself Dr. Munro opens up a private detective office in downtown Manhattan where he uses his "brain power" to find out if his clients, mostly wealthy women, husbands are cheating on them. Off course William or Dr. Munro gets a little help from his friend Frank Franklin. It's Franklin who gets the inside dope, on his job as a driver for the rich and famous, about William's clients husbands knowing exactly when their not at home and then having William use that to fool their wives in telling them that they were out partying with other women.
This leads one of William's, or Dr. Munro, women clients Ann Holman to believe that her loyal husband Don is cheating on her due to the false information that he gave her about him. It just happened that Ann is a good friend of William's wife Sylvia who has no idea that he's in fact Dr. Munro. Syliva then goes to Dr. Munro's office to have it out with him in what he did in destroying her friends-Ann-marriage.
***SPOILERS*** As things turned out it was Mr. Holman who beat Syliva to Dr. Munro's office and in a violent confrontation with him he ended up getting shot and killed by William who made his escape through the back door without his wife Sylvia ever seeing him! On the lam, in Juarez Mexico, with his wife Sylvia left holding the bag in not telling the police about his whereabouts, which she has no knowledge of, a very distraught and guilt ridden William for the first time in his life gets an attack of guilty consciences and decides to turn himself into the police, back in NYC, and face the music. William ends up receiving a 2 to 10 year sentence on a conviction of involuntarily homicide-or self defense-in Mr. Holman's death. The worst thing in all this is that as William was sent to spend at least the next two years behind bars Prohibition was repealed! Something he's been waiting for almost 15 years to happen.