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Rent The Door with Seven Locks (1940)

3.0 of 5 from 50 ratings
1h 26min
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Synopsis:
Based on a novel by British master of suspense Edgar Wallace, this murder mystery features Leslie Banks in brilliantly malevolent form alongside German-born star Lili Palmer. When the wealthy Lord Selford (Aubrey Mallalieu) dies, he is entombed with a valuable collection of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and release the treasure, but a series of mysterious events cause them be scattered; the Canadian heiress to the Selford fortune attempts to unravel the circumstances, but she and her fellow investigators find themselves caught in a terrifying web of deceit, torture, and murder...
Actors:
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Directors:
Producers:
John Argyle
Writers:
Edgar Wallace, John Argyle, Gilbert Gunn, Norman Lee
Aka:
Chamber of Horrors
Studio:
Network
Genres:
Classics, Drama, Horror, Thrillers
BBFC:
Release Date:
26/05/2014
Run Time:
86 minutes
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono
Subtitles:
None
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
Colour:
B & W
Bonus:
  • Image Gallery
  • Promotional Material PDF

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A Young Woman and an Iron Maiden - The Door with Seven Locks review by CH

Spoiler Alert
29/06/2025

Leslie Banks again as a villain, this time set upon foiling the emergent and glamorous Lilli Palmer, makes an enticing prospect. It is another Edgar Wallace adaptation. If his best-selling novels - sometimes dictated over a weekend - are little read now, screen versions of these yarns can remain diverting. The Door with Seven Locks has the premise of a fortune left to a young boy to be kept in trust by a lawyer who has the seven keys to unlock the vault when the time comes. This brings rightful heir Lilli Palmer in conflict with the wonderfully bearded, cloaked and monkey-owning Banks whose evil disposition manifests itself in murder (deadly pipes are used) and curatorship of his museum of torture devices,. (An iron maiden springs into action along the way.) Add to this a foul-tempered servant played by Cathleen Nesbitt (with whom Rupert Brooke had been smitten a quarter-century earlier) and all is set for suspense.

How disappointing that this soon dissipates, the promising premise lost amidst scenes which become unduly long and talkative. It is a film which has its moments, and leaves one eager to read what Lilli Palmer made of it in her acclaimed mid-Seventies memoir of a career which began with the little-known likes of this after being driven from a troubled Europe.

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