Darkened Rooms

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

• Rated 6.6 out of 10
• Movie
• 1929
• 1h 6m
• Mystery

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

Starring

Evelyn Brent, Neil Hamilton, Doris Hill, David Newell