The Midas Touch
Description
A con man swindles a bank president repeatedly in this farce set on the eve of the Great Depression.
Jim and Milly, his princess with mystical powers, make an easy $200 selling their Magic Hair Restorer to a bald-headed banker. Certain he can make more money from the banker, Jim tries to sell him the Midas touch, that is, the opportunity to read today, tomorrow’s financial page with stock closings yet to be completed. The banker agrees to buy the financial page dated October 29, 1929, not knowing what losses he and Jim are about to experience.
A trickster repeatedly cheats a bank boss in this comedy that takes place right before America's worst economic crash.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.
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