Darkened Rooms (1929)

Director: Louis J. Gasnier

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.

Cast

Evelyn Brent

Ellen

Neil Hamilton

Emory Jago

Doris Hill

Joyce Clayton

David Newell

Billy

Gale Henry

Madame Silvara

Wallace MacDonald

Bert Nelson

Blanche Craig

Mrs. Fogarty

E.H. Calvert

Mr. Clayton

Sammy Bricker

Sailor

George Beranger

Madame Silvara's Customer