In many movies it is the importance of the unconscious. From Remember (Spellbound) Hitchcock, even without going further, the film's last post, Shutter Island. The secret behind In door of Frizt Lang, re-use the same idea. Lang also making some other references to Hitchcock's work (specifically, Rebecca), regarding the situation of the protagonist, and some of its main characters. The plot presents
Celia (Joann Bennett), a newlywed heiress with a mysterious man she has known only a few days earlier in Mexico.
Despite being madly in love with him, shortly after his strange behavior, leaving it at the first chance, with excuses later discovered false, will be ready to end the marriage. Despite his performance, Celia decides to give him another chance, and when it comes to the house where they both go to live, she discovers her husband has a morbid hobby: collect rooms where murders have been committed.
Not living up to other works of the finest works of Lang, this is an interesting thriller where the director makes a brief and appropriate use of visual elements that are crucial to the plot (the candles, the key , the room ..) by completing a simple but powerful story. The expressionistic style of staging and the music of Miklos Rozsa, the pair will dosing growing tension is resolved satisfactorily, and less destructive than it would have been expected. A film to enjoy again the particular Lang form of address.
Title in English: The secret behind the door
Original title: The Secret Beyond the Door
Year: 1948
Country: United . U.S.
Director: Lang Frizt
Screenplay: Silvia Rufus King & Richards (History: Rufus King)
Music: Miklós Rózsa
Photo: Stanley Cortez (B & W)
Starring: Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, Barbara O'Neil, Anne Revere, Natalie Schafer, Anabel Shaw, Rosa Rey James Seay, Paul Cavanagh, Mark Dennis
Producer: Diana Production Company
Duration: 99 min.
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