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6.5/10 • 148

1947-12-241h 39m

MysteryThrillerDramaRomance

Some Men Destroy What They Love Most!

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
Editors
Arthur Hilton

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  1. Joan Bennett

    Joan Bennett

    Celia Lamphere

  2. Michael Redgrave

    Michael Redgrave

    Mark Lamphere

  3. Anne Revere

    Anne Revere

    Caroline Lamphere

  4. Barbara O'Neil

    Barbara O'Neil

    Miss Robey

  5. Natalie Schafer

    Natalie Schafer

    Edith Potter

  6. Paul Cavanagh

    Paul Cavanagh

    Rick Barrett

  7. Anabel Shaw

    Anabel Shaw

    Intellectual Sub-Deb

  8. Rosa Rey

    Rosa Rey

    Paquita

  9. James Seay

    James Seay

    Bob Dwight

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CinemaSerf

Jul 7, 2022

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.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
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