Secret Beyond the Door

Watch: Secret Beyond the Door

Unrated

12/24/19471h 39m

Theatrical (limited) Release (US)

~ Some Men Destroy What They Love Most! ~

Overview:

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.

Director:

Fritz Lang

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

new york city
jealousy
mexico
post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
love of one's life
single parent
clerk
architect
honeymoon
fetishism
psychoanalysis
room
neurosis
lilac
sigmund freud
film noir

Cast

Joan Bennett

~ as ~

Celia Lamphere

Michael Redgrave

~ as ~

Mark Lamphere

Anne Revere

~ as ~

Caroline Lamphere

Barbara O'Neil

~ as ~

Miss Robey

Natalie Schafer

~ as ~

Edith Potter

Paul Cavanagh

~ as ~

Rick Barrett

Anabel Shaw

~ as ~

Intellectual Sub-Deb

Rosa Rey

~ as ~

Paquita

James Seay

~ as ~

Bob Dwight

Mark Dennis

~ as ~

David Lamphere

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 3 year(s) ago
7
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.