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Summary

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.

Cast

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)

Crew

Director

Fritz Lang

Screenplay

Silvia Richards

Story

Rufus King

Reviews

Geronimo1967

July 7, 2022

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.