Darkened Rooms (1929)
1h 6m
Running Time
November 23, 1929Release Date
Plot.
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 & Crew.
Evelyn Brent
Ellen
Neil Hamilton
Emery Jago
Doris Hill
Joyce Clayton
David Newell
Billy
Gale Henry
Madame Silvara
Louis J. Gasnier
Director
Wallace MacDonald
Bert Nelson
Philip Gibbs
Writer
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Darkened Rooms is a 1929 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and starring Evelyn Brent. It was an early talking picture. This film is preserved at the Library of Congress. The film tried to cash in on the interest in spiritualism caused by the then-popular Harry Houdini, but critics felt the film couldn't quite decide whether it was debunking the supernatural, or embracing it.