Darkened Rooms

⭐ 6.7/10 📅 1929 ⏱️ 66 min 🎭 Mystery

He could control other people's minds; see what happens when a beautiful girl enters his life.

📋 Details

🎬 Director

Louis J. Gasnier

✍️ Writers

Melville Baker, Patrick Kearney, Philip Gibbs

🗣️ Languages

English

🎭 Genres

Mystery

📖 Overview

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.