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The Strange Door (1951) [NR]

Featuring:
Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest

Written by:
Jerry Sackheim
Robert Louis Stevenson

Directed by:
Joseph Pevney


Release Date:
June 21, 1951

Original Title:
The Strange Door

Alternate Titles:
Emmuré vivant

Genres:
Horror | Thriller

Production Companies:
Universal International Pictures
Universal Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR 

Runtime: 81

Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece of Terror !

Overview from TheMovieDB

The wicked Alain plots an elaborate revenge against his younger brother Edmund, leading to a deadly confrontation in his dungeon deathtrap.

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Overview from Open Movies

Noble-born cad Denis (Stapley) has been tricked into a forced stay at the eerie manor of the Sire de Maletroit (Laughton), an evil madman who can't get over the death of his beloved, twenty years after she married his brother (Cavanagh) instead and subsequently passed away during childbirth. Maletroit is determined to have his revenge: the brother has been stowed away in the dungeon for two decades, while he's convinced his disreputable house guest will make a suitably hellish husband for his niece. As luck would have it, the young couple manage to fall in love, and with the help of manservant Voltan (Karloff), they try to make their escape, but not before a final confrontation with Maletroit in the dungeon's crushing deathtrap.

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The Strange Door (1951) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 6.2/10
Awards Won: 1 nomination total

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Production

Art Direction:
Bernard Herzbrun
Eric Orbom
Nathan Juran

Costume Design:
Rosemary Odell

Director:
Joseph Pevney

Director of Photography:
Irving Glassberg

Editor:
Edward Curtiss

Hairstylist:
Joan St. Oegger

Makeup Artist:
Bud Westmore

Music:
Hans J. Salter
William Lava
Frank Skinner
Herman Stein
Miklós Rózsa

Music Director:
Joseph Gershenson

Producer:
Ted Richmond

Props:
Robert Laszlo

Screenplay:
Jerry Sackheim

Set Decoration:
Russell A. Gausman
Julia Heron

Short Story:
Robert Louis Stevenson

Sound:
Glenn E. Anderson
Leslie I. Carey

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