The Thirteenth Chair

1929
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1h 12min

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Psychological Drama Whodunnit Drama Mystery

En una mansión británica cerca de Calcuta, un inspector y una falsa medium intentan resolver dos asesinatos de los que una mujer es sospechosa.En una mansión británica cerca de Calcuta, un inspector y una falsa medium intentan resolver dos asesinatos de los que una mujer es sospechosa.En una mansión británica cerca de Calcuta, un inspector y una falsa medium intentan resolver dos asesinatos de los que una mujer es sospechosa.

Dirección
- Tod Browning
Guionistas
- Bayard Veiller
- Joseph Farnham
Elenco

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Dirección
- Tod Browning
Guionistas
- Bayard Veiller
- Joseph Farnham
Elenco

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Premios
- 1 premio ganado en total

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9/10

Gripping Whodunit

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.

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Trivia
Completed July 16 1929, the first sound feature in which Bela Lugosi's famous Hungarian tones were heard. This was Bela Lugosi's first venture with Browning. Two years later, the director cast him in the film version of the Bram Stoker vampire tale after Chaney, Browning's first choice for the role, died. Lugosi and Browning made one other film together, Mark of the Vampire (1935), in which he played Count Mora, a knock-off of his more famous blood-sucking cousin.

Errores
There are several scenes where it appears the actors are waiting for their cues before they start talking, most notably when the Inspector calls them all into the room to re-create the séance.

It isn't a "goof" that the actors seem to be waiting for their cues before they start acting. Many of the earliest MGM talkies employed a technique of long, lingering inactive moments at the beginning and ending of reels, which apparently were supposed to take the place of a leader when they changed over, perhaps accommodating the Vitaphone print versions. Years ago, when these titles appeared on TV, they didn't do that, so maybe Movietone versions were more succinctly edited.

Citas
Inspector Delzante: [Interrogating Madame La Grange, consulting his notes] Perhaps this will refresh your memory.

Versiones alternativas
MGM also released this movie in a silent version at 1628.55 m in length. The silent version of the film is considered lost as of February 2021.