Overview:
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.| Status: | Released (1929-10-19) |
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| Screen: | Bayard Veiller, Joseph Farnham |
| Productions: | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Crews
- 1496: Tod Browning - Director - Directing
- 98005: Elliott J. Clawson - Writer - Writing
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- 1496: Tod Browning - Producer - Production
- 114827: Harry Reynolds - Editor - Editing
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- 9064: Adrian - Costume Design - Costume & Make-Up
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Review text:
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 o ....
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