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

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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