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Darkened Rooms (1929)
Directed by Louis J. Gasnier
Overview
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.
Length 66 minutes
Actors
Evelyn Brent | Neil Hamilton | Doris Hill | David Newell | Gale Henry | Wallace MacDonald | Blanche Craig | E.H. Calvert | Sammy Bricker | George Beranger | Florence Dudley | Oscar Smith