Darkened Rooms
1929Phony 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.
Acted in
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