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Walter Wanger
Executive Producer -
Fritz Lang
Director -
Max Parker
Production Design -
Arthur Hilton
Editor -
Bud Westmore
Makeup Artist -
Travis Banton
Costume Design -
William Holland
Assistant Director -
Leslie I. Carey
Sound
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CinemaSerf 7/7/2022 8:54:37PM
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.
Hans Moebus
Guest in Home Tour (uncredited)Anne Revere
Caroline LampherePaul Fierro
Fighter (uncredited)Paul Cavanagh
Rick BarrettJoan Bennett
Celia LamphereMark Dennis
David LamphereHerschel Graham
Guest in Home Tour (uncredited)Natalie Schafer
Edith Potter