Film · Mystery
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.
- Director
- Louis J. Gasnier
- Writers
- Melville Baker, Philip Gibbs, Patrick Kearney
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- November 23, 1929
Cast
Evelyn BrentEllen
Neil HamiltonEmory Jago
Doris HillJoyce Clayton
David NewellBilly
Gale HenryMadame Silvara
Wallace MacDonaldBert Nelson- Blanche CraigMrs. Fogarty
E.H. CalvertMr. Clayton- Sammy BrickerSailor
George BerangerMadame Silvara's Customer
Florence DudleySailor's Girlfriend
Oscar SmithOscar
