Darkened Rooms
6.3
“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.
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Cast
18 people
Evelyn Brent
Ellen
Known for
Underworld
The Last Command
Neil Hamilton
Emory Jago
Known for
Batman
Tarzan the Ape Man
Louis J. Gasnier
Louis J. Gasnier
Also in
William Tell
Melville Baker
Doris Hill
Joyce Clayton
Also in
The Studio Murder Mystery
Tangled Destinies
Richard H Digges Jr
David Newell
Billy
Also in
The Hole in the Wall
Just Like Heaven
Philip Gibbs
Gale Henry
Madame Silvara
Also in
Mighty Like a Moose
The Detectress
Patrick Kearney
Known for
Timecode
Wallace MacDonald
Bert Nelson
Known for
The Rounders
The Face on the Barroom Floor
Louis J. Gasnier Director · Melville Baker Writer Patrick Kearney Writer
United States release November 23, 1929
Production
Paramount Pictures
Production · Distribution
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · November 23, 1929
Theatrical
Australia
February 22, 1930
Ireland
July 4, 1930
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