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Conrad Nagel

Leila Hyams

Margaret Wycherly

Bayard Veiller

Joseph Farnham

Edward Wales stages a seance to catch his friend&apos;s murderer. With 13 suspects, one kills again during the seance. The medium investigates when someone close is accused, aiming to expose the real culprit.

Tod Browning

The Thirteenth Chair

Gripping Whodunit

This isn&apos;t a typical Tod Browning film. It&apos;s more or less a very basic filming of a stage play (I gather; I don&apos;t know that for sure, but it feels very stagey) about a group of rich people who hire a medium to find out who killed their friend (and, to some of the group, an enemy). When they go into their seance, right as the name of the killer is about to be spoken, one of the men in the circle, the one who was succeeding at questioning the medium, is stabbed in the back. They then call a detective (Bela Lugosi) who grills them, trying to discover who murdered both of these men. I don&apos;t generally like whodunits, especially the Clue variety, where a detective gathers all the suspects in a room and attempts to root out the real killer, but The Thirteenth Chair is exceptionally written. The characters, and there are many, are quite well developed. The climactic scene, while asking that we suspend our disbelief, is truly suspenseful. See this gem if you ever get the chance. 9/10.

This isn't a typical Tod Browning film. It's more or less a very basic filming of a stage play (I gather; I don't know that for sure, but it feels very stagey) about a group of rich people who hire a medium to find out who killed their friend (and, to some of the group, an enemy). When they go into their seance, right as the name of the killer is about to be spoken, one of the men in the circle, the one who was succeeding at questioning the medium, is stabbed in the back. They then call a detective (Bela Lugosi) who grills them, trying to discover who murdered both of these men. I don't generally like whodunits, especially the Clue variety, where a detective gathers all the suspects in a room and attempts to root out the real killer, but The Thirteenth Chair is exceptionally written. The characters, and there are many, are quite well developed. The climactic scene, while asking that we suspend our disbelief, is truly suspenseful. See this gem if you ever get the chance. 9/10.

Edward Wales stages a seance to catch his friend's murderer. With 13 suspects, one kills again during the seance. The medium investigates when someone close is accused, aiming to expose the real culprit.

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