Secret Beyond the Door
Some Men Destroy What They Love Most!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 4, 2012
- Originally Released: 1948
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Joan Bennett & Michael Redgrave | |
Performer: | Anne Revere, Barbara O'Neil, Natalie Schafer, Paul Cavanagh, Anabel Shaw & James Seay | |
Directed by | Fritz Lang | |
Edited by | Arthur Hilton | |
Screenwriting by | Silvia Richards | |
Composition by | Miklos Rozsa | |
Story by | Rufus King | |
Produced by | Fritz Lang | |
Director of Photography: | Stanley Cortez |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
Sloppy effort from Lang late in his career.
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Empire Magazine
Secret Beyond the Door ventures into some astounding arenas (even for Lang, who was an expert in paranoia), both of the mind and otherwise.
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Combustible Celluloid
[Lang's] direction is masterly, imposing meanings and tensions through images that are spare, resonant and astonishingly beautiful. A remarkable film.
Time Out
Suspicion this is not.
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Film4
Strange, weirdly inventive thriller
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Classic Film and Television
Rating: 3/5 --
Mr. Lang is still a director who knows how to turn the obvious, such as locked doors and silent chambers and roving spotlights, into strangely tingling stuff.
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New York Times
3 stars out of 5 -- [N]oirish lensing enhances the moody, dream-like atmosphere.
Total Film
Product Description:
When a rich, bored young heiress, Celia, recklessly marries the elusive and mysterious architect Mark, she doesn't realize until after the fact that her new husband's life is filled with strange obsessions and dark secrets. Like many of the films of its day, Fritz Lang's THE SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR evokes Freudian psychoanalytic theory in portraying Mark's bizarre fascination with death. When Celia arrives at her new home, she finds that her husband is so interested in murder that he has recreated a multitude of crime scenes within his own house, one of which he keeps behind a locked door. Seemingly trapped within the spare yet surreal and terrifying confines of the mansion, Celia begins to fear for her life when Mark's real sublimated hatred for women starts to bubble over, and his love of violence leads her to believe that she is next. As this gothic tale veers towards its climax, Fritz Lang--with the help of cinematographer Stanley Cortez--paints a tense and moody portrait of Mark's psyche in crisis offset by Celia's loving devotion, which is the one thing that can save him.