''Chamber of Horrors'' is a 1929 British silent

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directed by

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and starring Frank Stanmore and Elizabeth Hempel. It was made at

Welwyn Studios Welwyn Studios was a British film studio located at Broadwater Road, Welwyn Garden City, in Hertfordshire. The facility operated between 1928 and 1950. The studios were first constructed by British Instructional Films, and converted to make s ...

. Film historians consider this movie the last major silent film made in England.Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 337. .

Plot

James Budgeforth (Frank Stanmore) spends the night in the Chamber of Horrors of

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. While there, he has a nightmare in which he murders his mistress Ninette (Elizabeth Hempel), 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 *

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as lady reporter *

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as lecturer

References

Bibliography

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

External links

* 1929 films British horror films British silent feature films 1929 horror films 1920s English-language films Films directed by Walter Summers Films shot at Welwyn Studios Films set in London British black-and-white films Silent horror films 1920s British films {{1920s-horror-film-stub