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.

Conrad Nagel
as Richard Crosby

Leila Hyams
as Helen 'Nellie' O'Neill

Margaret Wycherly
as Madame Rosalie La Grange

Helene Millard
as Mary Eastwood

Holmes Herbert
as Sir Roscoe Crosby

Mary Forbes
as Lady Alice Crosby

Bela Lugosi
as Inspector Delzante

Charles Quatermaine
as Dr. Philip Mason

Moon Carroll
as Helen Trent

Cyril Chadwick
as Brandon Trent
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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 ...