Secret Beyond the Door
Some Men Destroy What They Love Most!
1947 | 99m | English
Popularity: 0.5 (history)
| Director: | Fritz Lang |
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| Writer: | Silvia Richards, Rufus King |
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| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Dec 24, 1947 |
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| Director: | Fritz Lang |
| Writer: | Silvia Richards, Rufus King |
| Genres: | Drama, Romance, Mystery, Thriller |
| Keywords | new york city, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), mexico, single parent, jealousy, clerk, love of one's life, architect, honeymoon, psychoanalysis, room, neurosis, lilac, sigmund freud, fetishism, film noir |
| Production Companies | Universal Pictures, Diana Productions, Melange Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 (Update) Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Joan Bennett | Celia Lamphere |
| Michael Redgrave | Mark Lamphere |
| Anne Revere | Caroline Lamphere |
| Barbara O'Neil | Miss Robey |
| Natalie Schafer | Edith Potter |
| Paul Cavanagh | Rick Barrett |
| Anabel Shaw | Intellectual Sub-Deb |
| Rosa Rey | Paquita |
| James Seay | Bob Dwight |
| Mark Dennis | David Lamphere |
| Robert Barber | Alter Boy (uncredited) |
| Ray Beltram | Townsman (uncredited) |
| Virginia Brissac | Sarah (uncredited) |
| Ralph Brooks | Guest in Home Tour (uncredited) |
| Albert Cavens | Guest in Home Tour (uncredited) |
| Tom Chatterton | Judge (uncredited) |
| David Cota | Small Mexican Knife Fighter (uncredited) |
| Frank Dae | Country Squire (uncredited) |
| Harry Denny | College President (uncredited) |
| Watson Downs | Conductor (uncredited) |
| Danny Duncan | Ferret-Faced Man (uncredited) |
| Robert Espinoza | Alter Boy (uncredited) |
| Virginia Farmer | Levender Falls Wife (uncredited) |
| Paul Fierro | Fighter (uncredited) |
| Herschel Graham | Guest in Home Tour (uncredited) |
| Jesse Graves | Train Porter (uncredited) |
| Marie Harmon | Sub-Deb (uncredited) |
| Maria Haro | Townswoman (uncredited) |
| Donald Kerr | Ticket Man (uncredited) |
| Nolan Leary | Station Agent (uncredited) |
| Ralph Littlefield | Gothic Man (uncredited) |
| Donna Martell | Young Mexican Girl (uncredited) |
| Hans Moebus | Guest in Home Tour (uncredited) |
| Kay Morley | Sub-Deb (uncredited) |
| Frank O'Connor | Train Conductor (uncredited) |
| Bob Reeves | Guest in Home Tour (uncredited) |
| Pedro Regas | Waiter (uncredited) |
| Peggy Remington | Dean of Women (uncredited) |
| Julian Rivero | Proprietor (uncredited) |
| Tony Rodriquez | Alter Boy (uncredited) |
| Paul Scardon | Owl Eyes (uncredited) |
| Houseley Stevenson | Andy (uncredited) |
| Wayne C. Treadway | Beefy Man (uncredited) |
| Lucio Villegas | Priest (uncredited) |
| Eddy Waller | Lem (uncredited) |
| Crane Whitley | Levender Falls Husband (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Arthur Hilton | Editor |
| John P. Austin | Set Decoration |
| Silvia Richards | Screenplay |
| Max Parker | Production Design |
| Russell A. Gausman | Set Decoration |
| Rufus King | Story |
| Carmen Dirigo | Hairstylist |
| William Holland | Assistant Director |
| Glenn E. Anderson | Sound |
| Leslie I. Carey | Sound |
| Robert Cormack | Animation |
| Eugene Zador | Orchestrator |
| Walter Wanger | Presenter |
| Fritz Lang | Director |
| Stanley Cortez | Director of Photography |
| Miklós Rózsa | Original Music Composer |
| Travis Banton | Costume Design |
| Bud Westmore | Makeup Artist |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Walter Wanger | Executive Producer |
| Fritz Lang | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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| 2024 | 4 | 11 | 20 | 7 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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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 m ... eets 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.