Darkened Rooms (1929)
He could control other people's minds; see what happens when a beautiful girl enters his life.
66 min
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
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Evelyn Brent as Ellen
- Neil Hamilton as Emery Jago
- Doris Hill as Joyce Clayton
- David Newell as Billy
- Gale Henry as Madame Silvara
- Wallace MacDonald as Bert Nelson
- George Beranger as Madame Silvara's Customer
- Sammy Bricker as Sailor
- E.H. Calvert as Mr. Clayton
- Blanche Craig as Mrs. Fogarty
Crew
- Louis J. Gasnier · Director
- Philip Gibbs · Writer
- Patrick Kearney · Writer
- Melville Baker · Writer
- Richard H. Digges Jr. · Writer
- Archie Stout · Cinematographer