Darkened Rooms (1929)
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.
Cast
Evelyn Brent
Ellen
Neil Hamilton
Emory Jago
Doris Hill
Joyce Clayton
David Newell
Billy
Gale Henry
Madame Silvara
Wallace MacDonald
Bert Nelson
E.H. Calvert
Mr. Clayton
George Beranger
Madame Silvara's Customer
Florence Dudley
Sailor's Girlfriend
Oscar Smith
Oscar
