Secret Beyond the Door

1947

1h 39m

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6.5/10

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After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.

Directors

Fritz Lang

Writers

Silvia Richards(screenplay by)

Rufus King(story by)

Stars

Joan Bennett

Michael Redgrave

Anne Revere

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Celia Lamphere

Mark Lamphere

Caroline Lamphere

Miss Robey

Edith Potter

Rick Barrett

Intellectual Sub-Deb

Paquita

Bob Dwight

David Lamphere

Alter Boy (uncredited)

Ray Beltram

Townsman (uncredited)

Virginia Brissac

Sarah (uncredited)

Ralph Brooks

Guest in Home Tour (uncredited)

Albert Cavens

Guest in Home Tour (uncredited)

Tom Chatterton

Judge (uncredited)

David Cota

Small Mexican Knife Fighter (uncredited)

Frank Dae

Country Squire (uncredited)

Directors

Fritz Lang

Writers

Silvia Richards(screenplay by)

Rufus King(story by)

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7/10

I rather enjoyed this film - Fritz Lang leaves much of the intrigue to emanate from own imagination. "Celia" (Joan Bennett) meets and quickly falls in love with Michael Redgrave ("Mark"), an enigmatic gent from a family that has known better days. They decamp to his remote family mansion where she meets his sister, and his teenage son - of whom she was hitherto unaware. Things all start to take a turn for the strange once she arrives; her husband collects "rooms" - he recreates the rooms where historically macabre events have happened. There is a room in their home that he keeps locked - what's inside? Her paranoia, fuelled by some eerily lit scenarios and a good, suspicion-arousing performance from Redgrave gradually builds into quite a tense denouement. It has shades of "Rebecca" (1940) about it - the sister "Caroline" (Anne Revere) assuming the role of the mysteriously obsessive third party and there is enough ambiguity going on to keep it interesting until the end.

Geronimo196707 Jul, 2022