#Secret Beyond the Door

[ritahayworrth]

One door closed, and another opened wide and I went through and never looked behind because wind was there, and space and and sun and storms... everything was beyond that door. Joan Bennett as Celia Lamphere in Secret Beyond the Door (1947) dir. Fritz Lang

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[lindadarnell]

SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR 1947 | Fritz Lang

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[normasshearer]

JOAN BENNETT in SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR (1947) dir. Fritz Lang – Costume design by Travis Banton

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[grusinskayas]

Secret Beyond the Door (1947) dir. Fritz Lang

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[scenephile]

I seemed to float like a feather blown to a place where time had stopped

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[vidioten]

Secret Beyond The Door... (1947), Fritz Lang.

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[cor-ardens-archive]

Secret Beyond the Door (1947, Fritz Lang)

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[homocinematicus]

Secret Beyond the Door 1947 Fritz Lang

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[screenshotingmonstercinema]

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[atna2-34-75]

The Secret Beyond the Door

Fritz Lang, 1948

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[midnightb-movies]

Secret Beyond the Door (1947, dir: Fritz Lang) 

Straight people are SICK

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[maudeboggins]

this breakfast setup is so cute. the little egg holder!!! also i kind of feel like the decanter might have coffee in it because who would pair wine with a hardboiled egg? and i love that as a coffee pot!

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[flammentanz]

Regie: Fritz Lang - Directed by Fritz Lang

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[grusinskayas]

Secret Beyond the Door (1947) dir. Fritz Lang

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[mickeyluggage]

She's the og "I can fix him"

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[jasonsutekh]

Secret Beyond the Door (1948)

A newly married woman begins to suspect that her husband doesn’t truly love her, but in fact wants to murder her.

 There’s a fair amount of potential for suspense that’s mostly utilised well by engaging several possible suspects concerning a number of crimes which haven’t yet come to pass and one death that remains unexplained. Having Celia’s thoughts audible to the audience was a useful device as it helps us identify with her and increases our paranoia over scenes that could otherwise be innocuous. The sets are also of high quality and there are glamorous props made sinister by the tales recounted about them.

 A technical issue that makes the movie a little less palatable is that the music is considerably louder than the whispered thoughts. In terms of narrative and subtext the story is in essence The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter but with most of the blood and feminism taken from it, at some points to be replaced by overt sexism.

 The subtext is effective, in particular the examples of duality like veils and masks, as well as illusions like the dream-like exaggeration of the door and the recreated murder rooms. Not everything is explained which works in favour of the film since it leaves things to be unpicked on a later watch or with more thought.

 There’s an attempt to include a pseudo-psychoanalytical aspect to the plot which works in some ways but mainly serves as a way to excuse men of any rash action they feel like and leave women with the blame. The ending is a little disappointing in that there’s no on-screen justice for the antagonist but forgiveness for someone who was recently very willing to do a thoroughly premeditated “impulse” murder.

 4/10 -It’s below average, but only just!-

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