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The Thirteenth Chair

Who Killed Spencer Lee?

5.5(15)19291h 12m1

Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his murderer by staging a séance using a famous medium. Several of the thirteen participants had a motive, and one uses the cover of darkness to kill again. When someone close to the medium is suspected, she turns detective in hopes of uncovering the true perpetrator.

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Language
English
  • whodunit
  • killer
  • séance
  • spiritualist

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Director

Tod Browning

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United States of America

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  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR19 Oct 1929

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The Thirteenth Chair was released on 19 October 1929.

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    CyrusPK

    7/30/2018

    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 by the early sound re…

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