The Thirteenth Chair
1919 | 0m | English
Popularity: 0.2 (history)
| Director: | Léonce Perret |
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| Writer: | Léonce Perret |
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| Mrs. Philip Mason commits suicide after she has an affair with Stephen Lee, a disreputable stockbroker, and sells her husband's securities so that Lee can buy stocks. When Lee goes bankrupt, he blackmails Helen Trent by threatening to reveal silly love letters she wrote to him before she married. Her brother, Willy Grosby, and his fiancée, Helen O'Neil, who lives with the Grosbys, go to retrieve the letters. While Willy waits outside, Lee is knifed to death as he attacks Helen. Lee's friend, Edward Wales, attempts to pin the murder on Helen by having Madame LaFarge, a clairvoyant, conduct a séance. In the darkened room, Wales, through whom Lee's spirit supposedly speaks, is about to name Helen as the murderer, but Wales, who sits in the thirteenth chair, is himself murdered. After Helen confesses to Inspector Donohue that Madame LaFarge is her mother, LaFarge, while conducting another séance, tricks Philip Mason into confessing to the murders. | |
| Release Date: | Aug 23, 1919 |
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| Director: | Léonce Perret |
| Writer: | Léonce Perret |
| Genres: | Mystery |
| Keywords | suicide, blackmail, murder, based on play or musical |
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Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: May 11, 2024 Entered: May 12, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Yvonne Delva | Helen O'Neil |
| Creighton Hale | Willy Grosby |
| Marie Shotwell | Madame LaGrange |
| Georges Deneubourg | Edward Wales |
| Marc McDermott | Stephen Lee |
| Name | Job |
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| Léonce Perret | Writer, Director |
| Alfred Ortlieb | Camera Operator |
| Bayard Veiller | Theatre Play |
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