Secret Beyond the Door (Blu-ray)
Some Men Destroy What They Love Most!
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Blu-ray 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:
Mental complexities of the principals makes it sometimes hard to sort out the various motivations used to spin the tale.
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Variety
Suspicion this is not.
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Film4
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
Probably the most psychoanalytically oriented of his features, and because it's Lang, the murkiness is mainly a strength.
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Chicago Reader
With a haunting, melodramatic score by Miklos Rozsa and beautifully stark noir cinematography from Stanley Cortez, Lang's brilliant update adds a psychoanalytic Freudian twist...and is a distinct throwback to his German Expressionist roots.
Film Comment
Rating: 3/4 --
The most successful aspect of the production is the cinematography, which creates a shadowy world of false appearances, hidden meanings, and elusive truths.
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TV Guide
Rating: 2/5 --
Borrowing a plot from the Bluebeard legend, and chucking in a load of sub-Freudian hokum, Fritz Lang nonetheless makes a class act of this Gothic psycho-thriller.
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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.