The Thirteenth Chair (1929)

The Thirteenth Chair (1929)

Who Killed Spencer Lee?

Release Date: 1929, October 19
Directors: Tod Browning
Countries: United States of America
Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast: John Davidson, Lal Chand Mehra, Bela Lugosi, Mary Forbes, Moon Carroll, Leila Hyams, Holmes Herbert, Frank Leigh, Conrad Nagel, Margaret Wycherly, Helene Millard, Clarence Geldart

Overview:

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.