Secret Beyond the Door

Secret Beyond the Door

★ 6.5IMDb Score
Released:1947-12-24
Duration:99 min
Director:Fritz Lang
Actors:Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, Anne Revere, Barbara O'Neil, Natalie Schafer
Production:Diana Productions, Universal Pictures, Melange Pictures

Overview:

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. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.

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