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The Fortieth Door (1924)

The Fortieth Door poster
Directed by
George B. Seitz
Genre
silent film, adventure film
Country
United States
Runtime
3h 20m
Rated
NR
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An adventurer seeks to unlock a hidden chamber in a temple. A woman joins him in a series of narrow escapes.

old-fashionedmelodramaticcliffhanger-drivenaction-orientednostalgicepisodicmysterious

What happens

The Fortieth Door is a 1924 American adventure film serial directed by George B. Seitz and starring Allene Ray and Bruce Gordon. The film is considered to be lost. The Library of Congress includes the film among the National Film Preservation Board's updated 2019 list of "7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films" produced between 1912 and 1929. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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