Darkened Rooms (1929)
He could control other people's minds; see what happens when a beautiful girl enters his life.
Phony spiritualists were given a good going-over in the early talkie melodrama Darkened Rooms. Evelyn Brent stars as Ellen, a fraudulent medium working in cahoots with genuine clairvoyant Emory Jago (Neil Hamilton). The plotline is secondary; the film's main purpose was to emulate the methods of such professional "de-bunkers" as Mrs. Harry Houdini by exposing the various tricks of the spiritualist's trade.
- Date of release
- 1929-11-23
- TMDB
- 6.6 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 1h 6m
- Genres
- Mystery
- Director
- Louis J. Gasnier
Casting
- Evelyn Brent — Ellen
- Neil Hamilton — Emory Jago
- Doris Hill — Joyce Clayton
- David Newell — Billy
- Gale Henry — Madame Silvara
- Wallace MacDonald — Bert Nelson
- Blanche Craig — Mrs. Fogarty
- E.H. Calvert — Mr. Clayton
- Sammy Bricker — Sailor
- George Beranger — Madame Silvara's Customer
- Florence Dudley — Sailor's Girlfriend
- Oscar Smith — Oscar
Interesting facts
- Based on: Darkened Rooms
Darkened Rooms is a 1929 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and starring Evelyn Brent. It was an early talking picture. This film is preserved at the Library of Congress. The film tried to cash in on the interest in spiritualism caused by the then-popular Harry Houdini, but critics felt the film couldn't quite decide whether it was debunking the supernatural, or embracing it.
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