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Secret Beyond the Door... ()

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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.
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Celia Lamphere
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Mark Lamphere
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Caroline Lamphere
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Miss Robey
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Edith Potter
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Rick Barrett
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Intellectual Sub-Deb
Rosa Rey ...
Paquita
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Bob Dwight
Mark Dennis ...
David Lamphere
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Robert Barber ...
Altar Boy (uncredited)
Ray Beltram ...
Townsman (uncredited)
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Sarah (uncredited)
Ralph Brooks ...
Guest in Home Tour (uncredited)
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Guest in Home Tour (uncredited)
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Judge (uncredited)
David Cota ...
Small Mexican Knife Fighter (uncredited)
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Country Squire (uncredited)
Harry Denny ...
College President (uncredited)
Watson Downs ...
Conductor (uncredited)
Danny Duncan ...
Ferret-Faced Man (uncredited)
Robert Espinoza ...
Altar Boy (uncredited)
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Levender Falls Wife (uncredited)
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Fighter (uncredited)
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Guest in Home Tour (uncredited)
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Train Porter (uncredited)
Marie Harmon ...
Sub-Deb (uncredited)
Maria Haro ...
Townswoman (uncredited)
Donald Kerr ...
Ticket Man (uncredited)
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Station Agent (uncredited)
Ralph Littlefield ...
Gothic Man (uncredited)
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Young Mexican Girl (uncredited)
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Guest in Home Tour (uncredited)
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Sub-Deb (uncredited)
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Train Conductor (uncredited)
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Guest in Home Tour (uncredited)
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Waiter (uncredited)
Peggy Remington ...
Dean of Women (uncredited)
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Proprietor (uncredited)
Tony Rodriquez ...
Altar Boy (uncredited)
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Owl Eyes (uncredited)
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Andy (uncredited)
Wayne C. Treadway ...
Beefy Man (uncredited)
Lucio Villegas ...
Priest (uncredited)
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Lem (uncredited)
Crane Whitley ...
Levender Falls Husband (uncredited)

Directed by

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Fritz Lang

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Silvia Richards ... (screenplay)
 
Rufus King ... (story)

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Fritz Lang ... producer
Walter Wanger ... executive producer (uncredited)

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Miklós Rózsa ... (as Miklos Rozsa)

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Stanley Cortez ... director of photography

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Arthur Hilton

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Max Parker

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John P. Austin ... (set decorations) (as John Austin)
Russell A. Gausman

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Travis Banton ... (gowns)

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Carmen Dirigo ... hair stylist
Bud Westmore ... makeup artist

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William Holland ... assistant director

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Glenn E. Anderson ... sound
Leslie I. Carey ... sound

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Robert Cormack ... animator (uncredited)

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Eugene Joseff ... costume jeweller (uncredited)

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Ethmer Roten ... musician: flute (uncredited)
Eugene Zador ... orchestrator (uncredited)

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Walter Wanger ... presenter
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Plot Summary

In this Freudian version of the Bluebeard tale, a young, trust-funded New Yorker goes to Mexico on vacation before marrying an old friend whom she considers a safe choice for a husband. However, there she finds her dream man, a handsome, mysterious stranger who spots her in a crowd. In a matter of a few days they marry, honeymoon, and move to his mansion, to which he has added a wing full of rooms where famous murders took place. She discovers many secrets about the house and her husband, but what she really wants to know is what is in the room her husband always keeps locked. Written by Julie van Arcken

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Taglines Some Men Destroy What They Love Most! See more »
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Also Known As
  • Secret Beyond the Door (United States)
  • Fritz Lang's Secret Beyond the Door... (United Kingdom)
  • Secret Beyond the Door (United Kingdom)
  • Le secret derrière la porte (France)
  • Geheimnis hinter der Tür (Germany)
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  • 99 min
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Budget $1,500,000 (estimated)

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Trivia The grove of trees through which Celia (Joan Bennett) runs when she flees the house is the same grove through which the Wolf Man ran in The Wolf Man (1941), also made by Universal. In particular, the tree, against which she leans, is the same one under which the Wolf Man was beaten. See more »
Goofs When Celia takes an impression of the key in wax, she only takes the impression on one side, which would render the key made from that impression useless without the reverse side. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Secret Beyond the Door... 1947 (1956). See more »
Quotes Mark Lamphere: You were living that fight. You soaked it all in - love, hate, the passion. You've been starved for feelings - any real feelings. I thought: 20th Century Sleeping Beauty. Wealthy American girl who has lived her life wrapped in cotton wool but she wants to wake up. Maybe she can.
Celia Barrett: Is it as hard as all that?
Mark Lamphere: Most people are asleep.
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