An M - G - M Film
Producer:Carey Wilson
Director:Richard Thorpe
Screenplay:Jules Furthman & Manly Palmer Hall
Music:Miklos Rosza
Director of Photography:John Alton
Special Effects:A.Arnold Gillespie
Sound:Douglas Shearer
Set Decorations:Edwin B. Willis
Art Director:Cedric Gibbons
Costumes:Adrain
Technical Advisor/Historian:Many Palmer Hall
Running Time:99 Minutes
Released 1945
Cast:
Lionel Atwill........................Count Joseph Stuarto Cagliostro - "The Grand Copt " Is Gail really your wife ? How did THAT get by the censors ?
Pat O'Brien.........................Mike McConnal- Editor "The Daily Ledger " Speak louder PLEASE!!!!!
Gail Russell........................Countess Helena Petrovoich - Reader & Wife of Count Stuarto -Cagliostro - Your to young to be his wife !
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Bruce Bennett......................Det.John Landis -NYC Police
Jean Rogers.......................Jean Welsh - Reporter "The Daily Ledger "
Wallace Ford.......................Pat " Scoop" Hennessy - Reporter " The Daily Ledger " -OMG another loudmouth mick !!!!
George Zucco......................Alli Sing- Astrolger & Rival of Count Stuarto
Ann Doran..........................Angie -Editor McConnalls Secretary
Ann Patton.........................Mrs Jones - Thorpe Wealthy patron of the Grand Copt
Victor Killian.......................Joseph - Mute Assistant to the Count
Joseph Crehan.....................Eddie - Assistant Editor " The Daily Ledger "
Onslow Stevens....................Dr. Hall - Occult Historian
Marc Lawrence.....................Maurice - The Grand Copts Driver
Yvonne DeCarlo....................Girl ( Uncredited )
Edgar Dearing......................Beat Cop (Uncredited )
Donald Kerr.........................Danny - Cab Driver ( Uncredited )
Count Stuarto - Cagliostro & his " wife" are all the rage of NYC society with their healing & meditation clinic, " The Temple of Cagliostro ". They also grab the attention of girl reporter Jean Welsh, who gets her boss' ( Pat O' Brien ) approval to do a series of stories on the " spook business " & reincarnation,but " Scoop " Hennessy must accompy her at all times . Murder & mayhem insue with plenty of " Irish bellowing ".
The good Counts claims to have lived forever and be from the planet Venus.The good Count is confused, the Comte de Saint Germain, another occult figure made that claim, in the 1700's, not the real life so - called Count Cagliostro. The so - called Count Cagliostro was portrayed by Oson Welles in the Film " Black Magic ".
Manly Palmer Hall ( 1901 - 1990 ) was a Masonic/Occult Historian.