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Chamber of Horrors (1929 film)

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Chamber of Horrors
Directed byWalter Summers
Written byWalter Summers
Produced byH. Bruce Woolfe
StarringFrank Stanmore
Elizabeth Hempel
Production
company
Distributed byProducers Distributing Corporation
Release date
  • March 1929 (1929-03)
Running time
58 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Chamber of Horrors is a 1929 British silent horror film directed by Walter Summers and starring Frank Stanmore and Elizabeth Hempel. It was made at Welwyn Studios.[1] Film historians consider this movie the last major silent film made in England.[2]

Plot

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James Budgeforth spends the night in the Chamber of Horrors of Madame Tussauds. While there, he has a nightmare in which he murders his mistress Ninette, and believing the dream to be real, he loses his sanity during the night.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Wood p.67
  2. ^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 337. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.

Bibliography

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  • Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
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