The Thirteenth Chair (1929)

1929 · Feature film · 72 min · dir. Tod Browning

Who Killed Spencer Lee?

• Mystery
• Drama
• Horror

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Synopsis

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.

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Details

Director

Tod Browning

Writer

Elliott J. Clawson

Cinematography

Merritt B. Gerstad

Studio

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Released

1929-10-19

Running time

72 minutes

Cast & crew

• Tod Browning Director
• Conrad Nagel
• Leila Hyams
• Margaret Wycherly
• Helene Millard
• Holmes Herbert
• Mary Forbes
• Bela Lugosi
• CCharles Quatermaine

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