The Thirteenth Chair (1929)

Name: The Thirteenth Chair
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Released: 1929-10-19

1h 12m

Running Time

October 19, 1929
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Plot.

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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This Movie Is About.

killer ·

whodunit ·

seance ·

spiritualist

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Details.

Release Date
October 19, 1929

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 12m

Content Rating
NR

Genres
Drama Horror Mystery

Wiki.

The Thirteenth Chair is a 1929 American mystery film directed by Tod Browning. The picture is based on a 1916 play of the same name by Bayard Veiller. It stars Conrad Nagel, Leila Hyams and Margaret Wycherly.

The film was one of many released in both sound and silent versions. The initial television airing of the sound version, minus commercials, was by TCM on August 22, 2019. The sound version aired previously, with commercials, in the early 1990s on TNT.

An earlier version of the film, starring Creighton Hale, was made in 1919 by ACME/ Pathe Exchange, directed by Leonce Perret. In 1937, the film was again remade by MGM under the same title starring Elissa Landi and Dame May Whitty.