Darkened Rooms

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.

6.583

66 min

Cast

Evelyn Brent

as Ellen

Neil Hamilton

as Emory Jago

Doris Hill

as Joyce Clayton

David Newell

as Billy

Gale Henry

as Madame Silvara

Wallace MacDonald

as Bert Nelson

Blanche Craig

as Mrs. Fogarty

E.H. Calvert

as Mr. Clayton

Sammy Bricker

as Sailor

George Beranger

as Madame Silvara's Customer

Florence Dudley

as Sailor's Girlfriend

Oscar Smith

as Oscar

Director

Louis J. Gasnier