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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.
CinemaSerf
Jul 7, 2022 · via TMDB
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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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
James Seay
Bob Dwight
Virginia Brissac
Sarah (uncredited)
Tom Chatterton
Judge (uncredited)
Frank Dae
Country Squire (uncredited)
Virginia Farmer
Levender Falls Wife (uncredited)
Paul Fierro
Fighter (uncredited)
Jesse Graves
Train Porter (uncredited)
Marie Harmon
Sub-Deb (uncredited)
Donald Kerr
Ticket Man (uncredited)
Nolan Leary
Station Agent (uncredited)
Donna Martell
Young Mexican Girl (uncredited)
Kay Morley
Sub-Deb (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor
Train Conductor (uncredited)
Bob Reeves
Guest in Home Tour (uncredited)
Pedro Regas
Waiter (uncredited)
Paul Scardon
Owl Eyes (uncredited)
Houseley Stevenson
Andy (uncredited)
Eddy Waller
Lem (uncredited)
Crane Whitley
Levender Falls Husband (uncredited)
Stanley Cortez
Director of Photography
Travis Banton
Costume Design
Eugene Joseff
Costumer
Bud Westmore
Makeup Artist
Fritz Lang
Director
Fritz Lang
Producer
Miklós Rózsa
Original Music Composer
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