

“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
Release Date
November 23, 1929
Runtime
1h 6m
Status
Released
Original Language
en
Vote Count
6