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When Celia (Joan Bennett, Scarlet Street ) marries architect Mark Lamphere (Michael Redgrave, The Lady Vanishes ) after a whirlwind romance, life seems blissful - but all is not as it appears. Her husband's mansion contains re-creations of rooms in which infamous murders took place and his previous wife died in strange circumstances. Is the young bride's imagination overactive, or do the opulent walls hide a sinister secret - and why is one room always kept locked?
Fritz Lang's atmospheric romantic thriller is now available for the first time in a definitive, remastered edition featuring a collector's booklet with film notes and specially-commissioned articles, an extensive stills and poster gallery and rare on-set photographs.
Includes English subtitles for the hard of hearing.
Region 0 PAL.
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39 of 40 people found the following review helpful
This is a welcome DVD release for a fine movie from Fritz Lang. There are dark themes and suspenseful moods in common with Rebecca and Suspicion in this psychological thriller about a wealthy young woman (played by Joan Bennett) who goes on vacation and, seemingly on impulse, falls for a charming but mercurial architect (Michael Redgrave) and marries him before she even really knows anything of substance about him. Predictably, after a brief period of happiness, her husband begins to act strangely, and, as she anxiously tries to discover the reasons for his sudden cold aloofness, she finds that he has been married before. As she tries to make sense of such a shock, one more unnerving revelation after another (not least her husband's bizarre collection of murder-themed rooms that he keeps in his basement) shakes her sense of security, and then there is the lingering mystery of what lies beyond the room whose door remains locked in his mansion. Without giving anything else away, I can say that this is a riveting story, well-paced and expertly played and directed, with breathtaking use of light and shadow to summon up certain moods and moments. The print is really bright and clean, the sound is excellent and the experience as a whole is very enjoyable indeed. Highly recommended.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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A New York socialite (Joan Bennett) falls in love with and marries a man (Michael Redgrave) in Mexico that she's only known for a few days. But it doesn't take long for her to realize he has some deep rooted psychological problems. This noir-ish Freudian thriller (with ties to the Bluebeard story) benefits greatly from Fritz Lang's stimulating direction and Stanley Cortez's (MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS) atmospheric black and white lensing. Lang maintains an intense, almost claustrophobic mood and with Redgrave's off kilter performance, it's enough to propel the mystery forward. But if Lang doesn't quite cop out at the end like Hitchcock's SUSPICION or Siodmak's STRANGE AFFAIR OF UNCLE HARRY, the last fifteen minutes are pretty wobbly and disappointing. This was Bennett's fifth and final film with Lang and as she proved in her prior four films with him, she did her best work for him. If her distressed heroine isn't as good as the sluts she played in Lang's SCARLET STREET or WOMAN IN THE WINDOW, it's just not as interesting a character. Music by Miklos Rozsa. With Anne Revere, Natalie Schafer, Barbara O'Neil and James Seay.
The Exposure Cinema DVD via Great Britain is a very nicely rendered B&W transfer in its appropriate 1.33 ratio.
The Exposure Cinema DVD via Great Britain is a very nicely rendered B&W transfer in its appropriate 1.33 ratio.
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
This new edition by Exposure Cinema is a little treasure. The DVD transfer is very clean, with good contrast and a very pleasant overall image quality. It comes with an illustrated booklet containing three brief but interesting essays about the movie and its director. This is a title that Lang fans have waited forever to get. Kudos to the company for showing great care and issuing a top-quality product!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Freudian frolics!
An enjoyable, well-acted, and wonderfully designed load of nonsense based loosely around the theme of Bluebeard. Read more
Published 7 days ago by Adrian Drew
Lang at his best
Fritz Langs masterpiece "Secret Beyond the Door" is one of those pictures that don't age. It still holds up today due to its deliberate direction, the moody sets, the eerie... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Dr. Anatol Eschelmueller
Lang no Hitchcock, thankfully.
Apparently Fritz Lang was annoyed over the later years of his life that he wasn't thought of as being in the same league as Hitchcock as a recognisable
trade name for suspense... Read more
trade name for suspense... Read more
Published 3 months ago by P. Edwards
Truly lame
Poor, poor, poor. A genuine 24-carat dud.
As other reviewers have said, this is a silly pastiche. Read more
As other reviewers have said, this is a silly pastiche. Read more
Published 4 months ago by J. Kinory
pastiche of film gothic
Imagine taking the plot lines of 'Suspicion', 'Rebecca' and 'Spellbound', putting them in a blender and pouring out the result onto the screen. Read more
Published 5 months ago by W. Hamilton
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