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Double Door is a 1934 American pre-Code thriller film directed by Charles Vidor, written by Jack Cunningham and Gladys Lehman, and starring Evelyn Venable, Mary Morris, Anne Revere, and Kent Taylor. The film follows a young bride who finds herself tormented by her wealthy husband's abusive spinster sister in their New York City mansion.
A taut little Gothic thriller set in a cloistered manor in the heart of Manhattan where time has stood still for generations. Mary Morris (in her one and only film role) is pretty great as Victoria van Brett, the bitter Miss Havisham-esque matriarch of a family that's been ground down into trembling little worms by her controlling cruelty.
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- Paramount
- Charles Vidor
Double Door: Directed by Charles Vidor. With Evelyn Venable, Mary Morris, Anne Revere, Kent Taylor. In New York in 1910, wealthy spinster Victoria Van Brett controls with an iron hand both the family fortune and the lives of her younger sister Caroline and half brother Rip.
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- Drama, Horror, Mystery
- Charles Vidor
- 1934-05-04
24 apr 2021 · Discussion. My notes on Double Door (1934) This Paramount melodrama – billed as based on ‘the play that made Broadway gasp’ in its imaginative opening credits – was a big deal in its day, but has been overlooked by history, perhaps because it’s not on a level with various film versions of Gaslight and Rebecca which…
Run time: 75 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery. Director: Charles Vidor. Writers: Jack Cunningham, Gladys Lehman. Stars: Evelyn Venable, Mary Morris, Anne Revere. Storyline. When a young bride marries into the Van Brett family, she comes up against one of the most truly monstrous women ever seen in film.
Double Door - Kino Lorber Theatrical. Directed by Charles Vidor. Release: 1935. Runtime: 74. Country: U.S. Language: English. Director: Charles Vidor. Cast: Evelyn Venable, Mary Morris, Anne Revere, Sir Guy Standing, Kent Taylor, Colin Tapley. The female of the species is more deadly than the male!
16 gen 2022 · Several years before Orson Welles went after media mogul William Randolph Hearst with Citizen Kane, the Wendel family- an affluent clan of New York real estate barons- became the target of 1934’s Double Door. Film historian Tom Weaver describes the real-life Wendels (led by the spinster sisters Ella and Rebecca) to have been ...
