Watch The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936) Free Online

Release Date: 1936

Cast: Joan Gardner, Joan Hickson, Ernest Thesiger, Edward Chapman, Roland Young, George Zucco, Ralph Richardson, Sophie Stewart, Robert Cochran

Categories: Movies, Comedy, Fantasy Comedy, Fantasy, Black-and-white

The Man Who Could Work Miracles is a 1936 British fantasy-comedy film. It is a greatly expanded version of H.G. Wells’s story of the same name. It was the final adaptation of one of Wells' works to be produced during his lifetime. In The Man Who Could Work Miracles, three angels decide to experiment. They give haberdasher's assistant George Fotheringay (Roland Young), almost unlimited powers. He enters the Long Dragon Pub and begins arguing with his friends about miracles and the impossibility of them, and during this argument he inadvertently causes a miracle; he causes an oil lamp to... MORE

The Man Who Could Work Miracles is a 1936 British fantasy-comedy film. It is a greatly expanded version of H.G. Wells’s story of the same name. It was the final adaptation of one of Wells' works to be produced during his lifetime. In The Man Who Could Work Miracles, three angels decide to experiment. They give haberdasher's assistant George Fotheringay (Roland Young), almost unlimited powers. He enters the Long Dragon Pub and begins arguing with his friends about miracles and the impossibility of them, and during this argument he inadvertently causes a miracle; he causes an oil lamp to turn upside down, without anyone touching it and with the flame burning steadily downwards rather than righting itself. He soon runs out of willpower and is thrown out of the pub for spilling oil on the floor and causing a commotion. When he arrives at his home, he performs the same trick with a small candle and finds that it works. He is so overjoyed, 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 LESS