The Thirteenth Chair

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.

Cast

Conrad Nagel

Conrad Nagel

as Richard Crosby

Leila Hyams

Leila Hyams

as Helen 'Nellie' O'Neill

Margaret Wycherly

Margaret Wycherly

as Madame Rosalie La Grange

Helene Millard

Helene Millard

as Mary Eastwood

Holmes Herbert

Holmes Herbert

as Sir Roscoe Crosby

Mary Forbes

Mary Forbes

as Lady Alice Crosby

Bela Lugosi

Bela Lugosi

as Inspector Delzante

Charles Quatermaine

Charles Quatermaine

as Dr. Philip Mason

Moon Carroll

Moon Carroll

as Helen Trent

Cyril Chadwick

Cyril Chadwick

as Brandon Trent

Reviews

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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 ...

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