

Murders in the Rue Morgue
LOVE and MURDER are the two consuming passions of the Rue Morgue!
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
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- English
- prostitute
- paris, france
- england
- psychopath
- haunted house
- phantom
- hypnosis
- buried alive
- murder
- decapitation
- whodunit
- grand guignol
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- TheatricalRated GP21 Jul 1971
- PhysicalPG-13DVD; 98-minute cut15 Apr 2003
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Murders in the Rue Morgue was released on 21 July 1971.
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talisencrw
6/25/2016
In the extra on my Blu-ray of the film, director Hessler states he was upset with Jason Robards' performance in the title role and laments he didn't get to inherit Vincent Price as the film's star when he was asked to direct it. In watching, I quite agree that as fine an actor as Robards was, his heart wasn't in horror and thus his tone is off here. Still, Herbert Lom is great as the antagonist and there are many enj…
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Wuchak
9/9/2020
_**Poe mixed with Phantom of the Opera**_ At a Grand Guignol-like theater in turn-of-the-century Paris a troupe is beset by a shadowy acid killer. Jason Robards plays the director/actor, Christine Kaufmann his young wife, Lilli Palmer her mother, Herbert Lom a mysterious stalker, Michael Dunn a dubious dwarf and Adolfo Celi the inspector. “Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1971) is not a film version of Edgar Allan…
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