Darkened Rooms


1h 6m 1929

Film Details

Release Date
Nov 23, 1929
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Paramount Famous Lasky Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "Darkened Rooms" by Philip Hamilton Gibbs in Cosmopolitan Magazine (Mar--Jun 1928).

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 6m
Sound
Mono (MovieTone)
Color
Black and White
Film Length
6,066ft (7 reels)

Synopsis

Emory Jago, a boardwalk photographer who makes false photographs for Madame Silvara, a fake seeress, wants himself to benefit from the profits of spiritualism. Ellen, an unemployed chorus girl, faints from exhaustion when she visits his studio, and he engages her to act as his "medium." Madame Silvara arranges an appointment for a seance at the home of wealthy Mr. Clayton; they learn that his daughter, Joyce, now engaged to Billy, once loved an aviator who died in a crash; and gaining her confidence, Emory lures her to his studio, but Billy intervenes and takes her away. When the girl returns for another seance, Ellen, determined to queer Emory's game, engages Bert Nelson, an actor friend, to pose as the dead lover, and in sepulchral tones he announces Emory to be a fake. Emory is reconciled with Ellen, unaware of her spurious cure.

Film Details

Release Date
Nov 23, 1929
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Paramount Famous Lasky Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "Darkened Rooms" by Philip Hamilton Gibbs in Cosmopolitan Magazine (Mar--Jun 1928).

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 6m
Sound
Mono (MovieTone)
Color
Black and White
Film Length
6,066ft (7 reels)

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