The Man Who Could Work Miracles is a black-and-white 1936 British fantasy-comedy film directed by the German-born American director Lothar Mendes. Reputedly the best-known of Mendes' 20 films, it's a greatly expanded version of H. G. Wells’s short story of the same name and stars Sir Ralph Richardson and Roland Young in a London Films production from the famous Hungarian-born British producer, Sir Alexander Korda. H.G.