The next day, on the way to the shrine, Rogan encounters a woman struggling to lead her blind four year-old son up the hill to get there. You dig?” Film noir tough guy mixed with early 70s jargon-you gotta love it. And you’ll be up at that shrine asking to have the blue marks removed. “If you start acting like a fallen woman on the way to confession, then my first act as a whole man will be to play handball with you against the wall. In no uncertain terms, Joe Melcor (Ray Danton) tries to disabuse her of any notions she may be having. We hear her husband’s voice and the camera pans over to reveal a shadow on the floor-the shadow of her supposedly crippled husband standing upright. In an excellent shot, the room is dark when Gay enters it. Gay Melcor (Julie Adams) is seemingly unmoved by Rogan’s entreaties, but when she returns to the hotel room she is sharing with her husband, she confides to him her misgivings. While untold numbers of true believers are there to be healed of real maladies, Rogan is certain that Melcor is going to fake being cured by the shrine and walk out of there scot-free. Rogan is outraged not only at this bilking of half a million dollars, but also by Melcor’s presence in Camafeo. He won a jury claim of $500,000 against the insurance company that employs Rogan as an investigator. Rogan (Harry Guardino) believes that Melcor faked a paralyzing injury after getting hit by a bus. Rather, he has followed her and her husband Joe there from the United States, hoping to somehow prevent Melcor from accomplishing his final victory lap in a fraudulent $500,000 claim against an insurance company. In a cantina in the Mexican town of Camafeo, where physically afflicted pilgrims came from near and far in the hopes of receiving a miracle at the holy shrine of the Nuestra Senora de Camafeo, rumpled, middle-aged American Charlie Rogan walks up to an attractive American woman, Gay Melcor, and offers to buy her a drink.īut he’s not there to chat her up in hopes of romance. Margarita Garcia as the Blind Boy’s Mother An insurance swindler gets a lesson handed out to him Night Gallery-style in “The Miracle at Camafeo,” reviewed here.
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