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The first of three films Bela Lugosi made under the direction of Tod Browning. The 13th Chair was followed by Dracula in 1931 and Mark of the Vampire in 1935. In this second of three adaptations of Bayard Veiller’s 1916 play of the same name, Bela Lugosi plays an Inspector trying to solve a series of murders in a mansion. Margaret Wycherly, the former wife of Bayard Veiller, had starred in the original play.
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Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Producer: Tod Browning
Director: Tod Browning
Assistant Director: William Ryan
Screenplay & Dialogue: Elliot Clawson
Based on Bayard Veiller’s 1916 play The Thirteenth Chair
Cinematographer: Merritt B. Gerstad
Editor: Harry Reynolds
Settings: Cedric Gibbons and Captain Richard Day
Title music: William Axt
Titles: Joseph W. Farnham
Gowns: Adrian
Recordin Engineers: Paul Neal and Douglas Shearer
Running Time: 71 minutes
Copyright number LP794, October 28 1929
Cast:
Conrad Nagel: Richard Crosby
Leila Hyams: Helen O’Neill
Margaret Wycherly: Madame Rosalie La Grange
Helen Millard: Mary Eastwood
Holmes Herbert: Sir Roscoe Crosby
Mary Forbes: Lady Crosby
Bela Lugosi: Inspector Delzante
John Davidson: Edward Wales
Charles Quartermaine: Dr. Philip Mason
Moon Carroll: Helen Trent
Cyril Chadwick: Brandon Trent
Bertram Johns: Howard Standish
Gretchen Holland: Grace Standish
Frank Leigh: Professor Feringea,
Clarence Geldere: Commissioner Grimshaw
Lal Chand Mehra: Chotee
Henry Daniel
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Reading Eagle, October 26, 1929
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Miami Daily News, October 26, 1929
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Miami Daily News, October 27, 1929
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The Reading Eagle, October 27, 1929
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The Reading Eagle, October 30, 1929
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The Owosso Argus-Press, November 9, 1929
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The Evening Independent, November 25, 1929
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San Francisco Chronicle, December 13, 1929
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Rochester Evening Journal Post Express, December 14, 1929
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San Francisco Chronicle, January 3, 1930
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Unknown Newspaper
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Long Island Daily Press, January 16, 1930
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Rockford Republic, January 25, 1930
San Francisco Chronicle, February 15, 1930
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Daily Times, March 14, 1930
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Lobby Cards
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