Darkened Rooms (1929)

Phony spiritualists were given a good goingover in the early talkie melodrama Darkened Rooms Evelyn Brent stars as Ellen a fraudulent medium working in cahoots with genuine clairvoyant Emory Jago Neil Hamilton The plotline is secondary the films main purpose was to emulate the methods of such professional debunkers as Mrs Harry Houdini by exposing the various tricks of the spiritualists trade