Secret Beyond the Door [Remastered Special Edition] [DVD]

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Secret Beyond the Door [Remastered Special Edition] [DVD]

Secret Beyond the Door [Remastered Special Edition] [DVD]

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I'm still trying to wrap my head around this one, because I'm a fan of Fritz Lang and Joan Bennett.

Secret Beyond the Door..." is a reworking of "Rebecca". While there are plenty of differences, there are enough similarities that you can assume the Daphne Du Maurier was the starting point for the story from "Secret Beyond the Door...". However, there's one huge difference, one that makes the later film harder to enjoy. In "Rebecca", the new wife was naive, young and a bit dim. In "Secret", she (Joan Bennett) is supposed to be much more worldly, educated and older....and so her actions really don't make a lot of sense. Alma sews her dress overnight but stops when she runs out of needles. She searches for one in the attic but finds a brooch with a tag encrypting "February 14th, 1945" from Enid Dolan. She shows this to her daughter but doesn't know who bought it. Scooter later arrives at Rita's house and the two get sex with each other. However, Carlo wakes up and hears noises. Suspecting it to be Rita and her lover, he tries to catch them in the act but falls down to the stairs. At the day of the party, Alma appears with her new dress and Rita lies about Carlo's cause why he is in the hospital. Vern stalks Scooter outside of his place and takes a photograph of a woman going inside Scooter's room. It is revealed that the woman is Dee and that they are both lovers. At the party, Alma talks to a woman who recognizes Alma's cameo brooch, revealing that it belonged to her deceased Aunt Enid who died at Valentines Day. Rita receives a phone call from a doctor and tells her that Carlo is alive but will need her assistance since he can no longer move.

What Made Walter Neff Change His Mind?

This recap of Why Women Kill season 2, episode 1, “Secret Beyond the Door”, and Why Women Kill season 2, episode 2, “The Woman in the Window”, contains spoilers. On an idyllic terrace, Mark tells Celia that she killed the root of evil in him that night, but he has a long way to go. She tells him they will go that way together. Secret Beyond the Door was released in the UK on DVD in November 2011 by Exposure Cinema. [4] Olive Films released the film in the United States on DVD and Blu-ray on September 4, 2012. [5] Reception [ edit ] The situation is the familiar one of the girl who falls in love and marries a millionaire about whom she knows little, and finds that the home to which he takes her is one of those gloomy mansions which seem to have been built for the mysterious shadows they throw… The 1940s kept all of its nastiest secrets in noir, and that’s what makes watching film noir so rewarding. It’s the history lessons.

One fateful day, she reads in the newspaper that one of its members, Vonda Van Esen, has died. The club famously only allows a limited number of members, so she realizes that this is her chance. She excitedly shares the news with her husband, Dr. Bertram Fillcot, who gently reminds her that the Elysian Park Garden Club consists entirely of wealthy women who have their gardens tended to by professionals. Dejected, Alma agrees that her chances of getting in are slim. Another take on the BLUEBEARD/REBECCA type storyline from German auteur Fritz Lang, although I have to say that this is one of his worst movies. The story involves an idealistic young bride who marries a handsome man and moves into his ancestral home only to discover that he's hiding some very dark secrets. Who is the mysterious scarred woman in his home, and what secret is lurking behind door number seven? Rich, Jamie S. (September 11, 2012). "Secret Beyond the Door". DVD Talk . Retrieved February 20, 2015. As a result the cast have to thanklessly play it up the best they can. I thought than Bennett did as good a job as she could have hoped to have done. She isn't brilliant though but she plays detective well. More important but not much cop is Redgrave; OK the blame lies more on the material than in his performance but given how little was conveyed by words at times, his performance was important but not up to the task. Dark and Troubled Past: It is Implied that something traumatic happened in Mark's childhood which turned his love for his mother to hatred and made him unbalanced, and caused his first marriage to fail. Ultimately Subverted. The incident that traumatised Mark was a mundane prank played by his sister Caroline, which Mark wrongly attributed to his mother.It's a funny thing but this film really grows on you after you've seen it a few times. In fact, on a third outing I found it quite disturbing. Admittedly the viewings were separated by some years but the initial response of disappointment and belief that it was not a typical Lang film have now changed with the latest sighting to a conviction that here indeed is the typical Fritz. You see I have now discounted some of the initial feelings about it being just a women's soap opera with Babs O'Neil making a fair fist of a sort of poor woman's Mrs Danvers. This thing is somewhat like Rebecca, in a way. There is an impulsive marriage of a young woman, Celia (Joan Bennett) to a mysterious man, Mark (Michael Redgrave). After the marriage Celia finds out he has been married before, except this time, there is a son by that marriage. And her husband has a personal assistant who is facially deformed and is prone to setting fires. However, Celia is not like Rebecca. She is full of life and not unsure of herself at all.

Rufus King's novel Museum Piece No. Thirteen, upon which the film was based, also appeared in the Dec 1945 issue of Red Book magazine under the title The Secret Beyond the Door. The film opens with a voice-over narration spoken by Joan Bennett. Contemporary sources indicate that British actor Michael Redgrave made his U.S. film debut in the picture, although RKO's production of Mourning Becomes Electra (see above), which Redgrave filmed immediately afterward, was released just prior to Secret Beyond the Door. According to contemporary sources, director Fritz Lang wanted Milton Krasner as director of photography, but Bennett, a partner with Lang and producer Walter Wanger in Diana Productions, insisted that Stanley Cortez be used. Contemporary sources reveal Lang's first choice for Mark Lamphere was James Mason. In addition, modern sources note that Ring Larder, Jr. was initially considered as the film's screenwriter and that the final script, by Silvia Richards and Lang (uncredited), took nearly a year to complete.

Psychiatry, plus a suggestion of the Bluebeard legend, plus a lot of Gothic glooms, was the essence of Fritz Lang's thriller… Celia Barrett is a New Yorker with a trust fund and one of the city's most eligible single women. On a trip to Mexico she meets and falls for the charming Mark Lamphere, and later the couple marry. Returning to his home and pushing him to let her finance his passion for collecting "rooms", Celia starts to suspect that all might not be right with this perfect man she has landed and indeed the secrets in his house and in his past soon start to mount. I think the best character in this film was definitely Joan Bennett. I liked the idea that she would basically be turned on by Michael Redgrave and the other man fighting, and she seemed even more turned on when the thrown knife narrowly missed stabbing her hand. I wish that her motivation for marrying Redgrave would have been made a little more clearer, or if we'd seen more scenes of him romancing her or something. While it most definitely was an impetuous decision on their parts, it comes across as a very naive decision as well. I am okay with the whirlwind romance, but I think there needed to be more exposition. I liked her scenes at the end. Though much like other 1940s films that depict psychology, it seems that Michael Redgrave's therapy session (so to speak) and Joan's assessment of his condition seemed a bit rushed and too pat. This is a man who builds replicas of rooms where famous murders took place and we're supposed to believe that his whole issue boils down to being constantly dominated by women? Now he's cured and they'll live happily ever after? Mommy Issues: Mark had a troubled relationship with his mother, and in fact with every other woman in his life. Vern follows Scooter on the streets and finds him entering a diner. There, he meets Dee, who gets suspicious of him. Bertram and Maisie gets drunk and sing along to each other. Upon arriving to Maisie's place, she invites him over but he rejects her offer. The next day, Alma goes shopping to buy a new dress for the party. She founds a dress she likes but is more expensive. Unable to afford the dress, she decides to recreate the dress with her own sewing materials. At the Castillo's, Rita and Carlo are having dinner but Carlo drinks instead rather than eating. He reveals that he suspects that Rita is cheating on him but she denies it. He insults her by reminding her that he once paid her. Rita gets mad and decides to cut off his drink but he threatens her about her lover. As they go to sleep, she calls Scooter and tells him that there has been a change of plans.



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