

Secret Beyond the Door
Some Men Destroy What They Love Most!
After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $1.5M
- Box office
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- Language
- English
- new york city
- jealousy
- mexico
- post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
- love of one's life
- single parent
- clerk
- architect
- honeymoon
- fetishism
- psychoanalysis
- room
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)NRSan Francisco, California24 Dec 1947
- Theatrical (limited)NRNew York City, New York15 Jan 1948
- Theatrical (limited)NRChicago, Illinois22 Jan 1948
- TVPGSt. Louis, Missouri7 Aug 1954
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalA rating13 Dec 1948
- Theatrical (limited)London / A rating4 Nov 1949
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical (limited)Sydney, New South Wales27 Mar 1948
CanadaCA
- Theatrical (limited)Vancouver, British Columbia, Premiere4 Mar 1948
- TVWindsor, Ontario25 Nov 1954
AustriaAT
- Theatrical20 Mar 1950
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical (limited)Brussels9 Apr 1948
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical27 Sept 1948
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1611 Mar 1949
FranceFR
- Theatrical13 Aug 1948
- TheatricalRe-release, restored version17 Sept 2014
- Digital / OTTTPFrance.tv4 Oct 2026
- TVTPFrance 34 Oct 2026
GermanyDE
- TV16Edited Version9 Nov 1970
- TV16Uncut Version30 Nov 2006
GreeceGR
- Theatrical17 Sept 1949
IrelandIE
- Theatrical16 Jan 1949
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Secret Beyond the Door was released on 24 December 1947.
Audience reviews
1- C7/10
CinemaSerf
7/7/2022
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…
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