The thirteenth chair

Título original: 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.

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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.

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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.

Conexiones
Referenced in You Must Remember This: Bela and the Vampires (Bela & Boris Part 2) (2017)

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Odd editing

Recently saw this enjoyable little curio on TCM. Adding to the comments of others on the matter of style, I was surprised to notice several examples of short graceful tracking shots forward or back, just to break up the sense of staginess. (The mansion has very smooth floors!) So it's not that the camera is absolutely static. But Browning avoids close-ups for the most part. What was odd is the editing at certain times, which seems way off. There's one bizarre moment when the actors are clearly gathered in preparation for when the director calls "Action," and then after a few seconds, they abruptly begin speaking to each other in mid-sentence. (I'd like to see someone do a whole movie like that!) There's an equally strange edit when Margaret Wycherley walks out of the frame to confront Bela Lugosi (a few steps away), and then we cut to Lugosi sitting in his chair waiting an awfully long time beside dead space for her to walk into frame. I wonder what that was about?