Chamber of Horrors (1929 film)

1929 British film by Walter Summers

Chamber of Horrors
Directed by	Walter Summers
Written by	Walter Summers
Produced by	H. Bruce Woolfe
Starring	Frank Stanmore Elizabeth Hempel
Production company	British Instructional Films
Distributed by	Producers Distributing Corporation
Release date	March 1929 (1929-03)
Running time	58 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Languages	Silent 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. Film historians consider this movie the last major silent film made in England.

Plot

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

Frank Stanmore as James Budgeforth
Elizabeth Hempel as Ninette
Leslie Holland as deaf mute
Joan Maude as lady reporter
Fanny Wright as lecturer

References

Wood p.67
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

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

External links

Chamber of Horrors at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Walter Summers
Afterglow (1923) A Couple of Down and Outs (1923) The Unwanted (1924) The Cost of Beauty (1924) Who Is the Man? (1924) Ypres (1925) Nelson (1926) Mons (1926) The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands (1927) Bolibar (1928) Lost Patrol (1929) Chamber of Horrors (1929) Raise the Roof (1930) The Flame of Love (1930) Suspense (1930) The Man from Chicago (1931) The Flying Fool (1931) Men Like These (1932) The House Opposite (1931) Timbuctoo (1933) The Warren Case (1934) The Return of Bulldog Drummond (1934) What Happened Then? (1934) Music Hath Charms (1935) Royal Cavalcade (1935) McGlusky the Sea Rover (1935) The Limping Man (1936) The Price of Folly (1937) Lucky Jade (1937) Premiere (1938) The Dark Eyes of London (1939) Traitor Spy (1939) At the Villa Rose (1940)

Films directed by Walter Summers

Afterglow (1923)
A Couple of Down and Outs (1923)
The Unwanted (1924)
The Cost of Beauty (1924)
Who Is the Man? (1924)
Ypres (1925)
Nelson (1926)
Mons (1926)
The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands (1927)
Bolibar (1928)
Lost Patrol (1929)
Chamber of Horrors (1929)
Raise the Roof (1930)
The Flame of Love (1930)
Suspense (1930)
The Man from Chicago (1931)
The Flying Fool (1931)
Men Like These (1932)
The House Opposite (1931)
Timbuctoo (1933)
The Warren Case (1934)
The Return of Bulldog Drummond (1934)
What Happened Then? (1934)
Music Hath Charms (1935)
Royal Cavalcade (1935)
McGlusky the Sea Rover (1935)
The Limping Man (1936)
The Price of Folly (1937)
Lucky Jade (1937)
Premiere (1938)
The Dark Eyes of London (1939)
Traitor Spy (1939)
At the Villa Rose (1940)

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