The Thirteenth Chair

1929 PG-13 1h 12m

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Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance participants had a reason and a means to kill, and one of them uses the cover of darkness to kill again. When someone close to the medium is suspected she turns detective, in the hope of uncovering the true murderer.

Director Tod Browning

Writers

Elliott J. Clawson Bayard Veiller

Stars

Conrad Nagel Leila Hyams Margaret Wycherly

Conrad Nagel

Richard Crosby

Leila Hyams

Helen 'Nellie' O'Neill

Margaret Wycherly

Madame Rosalie La Grange

Commissioner Grimshaw

Lal Chand Mehra

Chotee

Mystery Drama Horror

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CyrusPK 30 Jul 2018

4/10

Some films are known more for the trivia associated with them than their actual content – The Thirteenth Chair (1929) being one of them. As the first sound film for director Tod Browning and his first collaboration with the Hungarian emigre actor Bela Lugosi it is these points of interest in a film a few years before Dracula (1931) that draw most attention. Browning seems very restricted b...