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Secret Beyond the Door (1947)

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Country: US
Technical: bw 98m
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, Anne Revere

Synopsis:

A wealthy heiress goes on vacation before settling down, but meets a mysterious, handsome stranger whom she promptly marries. Back in his East Coast mansion she discovers his penchant for rooms with grisly secrets, in particular one which he keeps locked and which she must not ask to see.

Review:

Lang's stab at a Freudian-inflected thriller, complete with expressionistic dream sequence, this is in a way a blend of Hitchcock's Suspicion and Spellbound, although some will of course recognize Bluebeard's Castle as a source. It's been critically snubbed in the past but isn't that bad, with Redgrave wonderfully intense and scary; Bennett is perhaps miscast: not ingénue enough.

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Country: US
Technical: bw 98m
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, Anne Revere

Synopsis:

A wealthy heiress goes on vacation before settling down, but meets a mysterious, handsome stranger whom she promptly marries. Back in his East Coast mansion she discovers his penchant for rooms with grisly secrets, in particular one which he keeps locked and which she must not ask to see.

Review:

Lang's stab at a Freudian-inflected thriller, complete with expressionistic dream sequence, this is in a way a blend of Hitchcock's Suspicion and Spellbound, although some will of course recognize Bluebeard's Castle as a source. It's been critically snubbed in the past but isn't that bad, with Redgrave wonderfully intense and scary; Bennett is perhaps miscast: not ingénue enough.


Country: US
Technical: bw 98m
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, Anne Revere

Synopsis:

A wealthy heiress goes on vacation before settling down, but meets a mysterious, handsome stranger whom she promptly marries. Back in his East Coast mansion she discovers his penchant for rooms with grisly secrets, in particular one which he keeps locked and which she must not ask to see.

Review:

Lang's stab at a Freudian-inflected thriller, complete with expressionistic dream sequence, this is in a way a blend of Hitchcock's Suspicion and Spellbound, although some will of course recognize Bluebeard's Castle as a source. It's been critically snubbed in the past but isn't that bad, with Redgrave wonderfully intense and scary; Bennett is perhaps miscast: not ingénue enough.

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