Darkened Rooms

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.

• Release date
• November 23, 1929
• Runtime
• 66 min
• Genres
• Mystery
• Director
• Louis J. Gasnier

Cast

Evelyn Brent Ellen Neil Hamilton Emory Jago Doris Hill Joyce Clayton David Newell Billy Gale Henry Madame Silvara Wallace MacDonald Bert Nelson

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