The Sealed Room (1909)
- Directed by
- D. W. Griffith
- Genre
- drama film, horror film, silent film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 11 min
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 5.1 of 10 from 34 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A king discovers that his wife is having an affair with a courtier. In revenge, he has the lover bricked up alive in a sealed room while the queen watches helplessly.
historicaldarktensebleakmelodramaticslow-burngrimsilent-era
What happens
The Sealed Room (also known as The Sealed Door) is an eleven-minute film released in September 1909. Produced by the Biograph Company and directed by D. W. Griffith, the drama's cast includes Arthur V. Johnson, Marion Leonard, Henry B. Walthall, Mary Pickford, and Mack Sennett. It was distributed to theaters on a split-reel with another film, the three-minute comedy short The Little Darling. The story draws from Honoré de Balzac's La Grande Bretêche and Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask of Amontillado, both of which inspired the film's central theme of immurement. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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