メキシコでの電撃的なロマンスの末、美しい令嬢はほとんど知らない男性とろくに考えもせず結婚する。彼女が訪れた夫のニューヨークの邸宅は、奇妙な親族たちと、有名な殺人現場を再現した不気味な部屋で満ちていた。鍵のかかった一室には、夫の執着の秘密と、彼の最初の妻に起こった出来事の真相が隠されていた。
製作費: $1,500,000 (2億円)
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監督: フリッツ・ラング
脚本: Silvia Richards / Rufus King
音楽: ロージャ・ミクローシュ
制作: ウォルター・ウェンジャー / フリッツ・ラング
撮影監督: Stanley Cortez
制作会社: Diana Productions / Universal Pictures / Melange Pictures
I rather enjoyed this film - Fritz Lang leaves much of the intrigue to emanate from own imagination. "Celia" (Joan Bennett) meets and quickly falls in love with Michael Redgrave ("Mark"), an enigmatic gent from a family that has known better days. They decamp to his remote family mansion where she meets his sister, and his teenage son - of whom she was hitherto unaware. Things all start to take a turn for the strange once she arrives; her husband collects "rooms" - he recreates the rooms where historically macabre events have happened. There is a room in their home that he keeps locked - what's inside? Her paranoia, fuelled by some eerily lit scenarios and a good, suspicion-arousing performance from Redgrave gradually builds into quite a tense denouement. It has shades of "Rebecca" (1940) about it - the sister "Caroline" (Anne Revere) assuming the role of the mysteriously obsessive third party and there is enough ambiguity going on to keep it interesting until the end.
