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Actors: Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, Anne Revere, Barbara O'Neil
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Secret Beyond the Door |
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SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR is a movie produced and directed by Fritz Lang in 1947. This picture belongs to the sub-genre of the Freudian movies, a genre in vogue in Hollywood between 1940 and 1950.
Joan Bennett meets Michael Redgrave in Mexico and marries him after a few days in his company. Back in the U.S.A., in Regrave's home, she learns that he has a 14 years old son with whom he maintains hating relations and that his first wife has recently died. Joan tries her best to save her marriage while Michael is suffering more and more frequently from sudden changes of hearts and bursts of aggressivity. Above all, she doesn't understand the strange passion of her husband who is recreating and furnishing, in a wing of the house, rooms in which famous murders have been committed. And why does Michael forbid her to enter the room n° 7 which is locked ?
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Family, struggling with
Yes
Struggle with:
- Son
Lover is...
- criminal/bad doer
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- homemaker/wife
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn curly
Body type
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- mentally ill
- emotionally unstable
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- Mexico
Forest?
Yes
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
Check here if B&W
Yes
Any profanity?
- None
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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