The Strange Door (1951)

Directed by

Joseph Pevney

Genre

horror film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 18m

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A cruel French nobleman plots revenge against his brother by imprisoning and terrorizing him. A young man and woman get caught in his schemes.

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What happens

The Strange Door (also known as Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Door) is a 1951 American Universal Pictures horror film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest and Richard Stapley. The screenplay is based on the short story "The Sire de Maletroit's Door" by Robert Louis Stevenson. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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