Secret Beyond the Door

A terrified wife (Joan Bennett) menaced by her husband (Michael Redgrave), who has this psychological problem. Anne Revere. Sub-Deb: Anabel Shaw. Miss Robey: Barbara O’Neil. Edith: Natalie Schafer. A try for suspense. Fritz Lang directed., Master filmmaker Fritz Lang directed this dark, haunting melodrama that centers on a lonely heiress who goes on vacation to Mexico and returns married to the publisher of a magazine on architecture. The honeymoon goes well, but as time passes, her husband’s darker side begins to appear and the woman begins to fear that her beloved is a cold-blooded killer., In this Freudian version of the Bluebeard tale, a young, trust-funded New Yorker goes to Mexico on vacation before marrying an old friend whom she considers a safe choice for a husband. However, there she finds her dream man — a handsome, mysterious stranger who spots her in a crowd. In a matter of days they marry, honeymoon and move to his mansion, to which he has added a wing full of rooms where famous murders took place. She discovers many secrets about the house and her husband, but what she really wants to know is what is in the room her husband always keeps locked., 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. One locked room contains the secret to her husband’s obsession.