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Max Parker
Production Design -
Walter Wanger
Executive Producer -
Fritz Lang
Director -
Carmen Dirigo
Hairstylist -
Arthur Hilton
Editor -
Bud Westmore
Makeup Artist -
Russell A. Gausman
Set Decoration -
Miklós Rózsa
Original Music Composer
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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.
Paul Fierro
Fighter (uncredited)Hans Moebus
Guest in Home Tour (uncredited)Paul Cavanagh
Rick BarrettHerschel Graham
Guest in Home Tour (uncredited)Joan Bennett
Celia LamphereMark Dennis
David LamphereAnne Revere
Caroline LamphereVirginia Brissac
Sarah (uncredited)