The American Film Institute's own Catalog of Feature Films record for "The Thirteenth Chair" (1929), a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer mystery directed by Tod Browning. The Catalog's own genre and subject fields name Melodrama, Mystery, Authors, Calcutta (India), Mediums, Murder and Spiritualism. Its own plot summary: a writer is killed in Calcutta, and authorities consult "Madame Rosalie La Grange, a reputedly successful medium," whose reconstructed seance frightens the killer into confessing.
Facts
Citation
PublisherAmerican Film Institute
URLhttps://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/12638
Source Typeinstitutional record
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
The American Film Institute's own comprehensive Catalog of Feature Films, the standard reference record for American film history, whose own subject-heading field names Spiritualism and Mediums outright for this title. Connections
Associated With
This source names Spiritualism directly: "Calcutta (India), Mediums, Murder and Spiritualism."
Source The Thirteenth Chair, AFI Catalog Record (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1929)
Claims Backed By This Source (13 claims)
This source backs 13 claims across the atlas. As facts: 10 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Screen Works, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
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