Joan Bennett
Celia Lamphere
Search results
Secret Beyond the Door is a 1947 American film noir psychological thriller and a modern updating of the Bluebeard fairytale, directed by Fritz Lang, produced by Lang's Diana Productions, and released by Universal Pictures.
Secret Beyond the Door...: Directed by Fritz Lang. With Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, Anne Revere, Barbara O'Neil. After a lovely woman and her new husband settle in an ancient mansion on the East coast, she discovers that he may want to kill her.
- (5.7K)
- Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
- Fritz Lang
- 1948-04-12
In New York, after the death of her beloved brother Rick Barrett (Paul Cavanagh), the heiress Celia (Joan Bennett) has a brief love affair with Rick's friend and administrator of the funds Bob Dwight (James Seay), and they decide to marry each other.
People also ask
Who directed Secret Beyond the door?
Is 'Secret Beyond the door' a good book?
Is there a secret beyond the door based on a true story?
Who is beyond the door?
When Secret Beyond the Door opened in January of 1948, influential critic James Agee dismissed it as "a worthless picture," others called it "a pretty silly yarn", "a woman's picture made by a misogynist," and an "elegant grand guignol nightmare." The censor boards in Ohio and in Boston threatened to snip whole scenes deemed too tawdry for ...
- Fritz Lang, William Holland
- Joan Bennett
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.
- (5.7K)
- Fritz Lang
Secret Beyond the Door. A playgirl (Joan Bennett) marries a stranger (Michael Redgrave) whose quirks include a hang-up about murder.
- (15)
- Mystery & Thriller
Even star Joan Bennett and director Fritz Lang regarded The Secret Beyond the Door as the weakest of their collaborative efforts. Bennett plays spoiled socialite Celia, who falls recklessly in love with the handsome but emotionally complex Mark Lamphere (Michael Redgrave, in his first American film).
