Darkened Rooms

1929 • 1h 6m • Mystery

6.6(8 votes)

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, Patrick Kearney

Status

Released