The Door with Seven Locks (1940 film)

The Door with Seven Locks
Film poster under American title
Directed by	Norman Lee
Produced by	John Argyle
Written by	Edgar Wallace John Argyle Gilbert Gunn Norman Lee
Starring	Leslie Banks Lilli Palmer Romilly Lunge Gina Malo David Horne Richard Bird Cathleen Nesbitt J.H. Roberts Aubrey Mallalieu Harry Hutchinson Ross Landon Phil Ray Robert Montgomery
Music by	Guy Jones
Cinematography	Alex Bryce Ernest Palmer
Editing by	E.G. Richards
Release date(s)	December 20, 1940
Running time	89 minutes (U.K.) 79 minutes (U.S.)
Language	English

The Door with Seven Locks is a 1940 black-and-white British film, created and released shortly after the British Board of Film Censors lifted its mid-1930s ban on the importation of supernatural-themed and horror genre films. It was based on the novel The Door with Seven Locks by Edgar Wallace. Released in the United States by Monogram Pictures under the title Chamber of Horrors, it was the second Wallace film adaptation to arrive in the United States, the first being The Human Monster^[1] (a.k.a. The Dark Eyes of London) starring Béla Lugosi (released 1939).

Plot synopsis

A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get hold of the treasure. A series of mysterious events cause the keys to be scattered, and when trying to unravel the circumstances, the heiress of the fortune and her companion investigators become entangled in a web of fraud, deceit, torture, and murder.

Cast

• Leslie Banks
• Lilli Palmer
• Romilly Lunge
• Gina Malo
• David Horne
• Richard Bird
• Cathleen Nesbitt
• JH Roberts
• Aubrey Mallalieu
• Harry Hutchinson
• Ross Landon
• Phil Ray
• Robert Montgomery

References

1. ^ "Chamber of Horrors". Movie Tome. movietome.com. http://www.movietome.com/movie/359850/chamber-of-horrors/index.html. Retrieved 2008-01-29. 

External links

• The Door with Seven Locks at AllRovi
• The Door with Seven Locks at the Internet Movie Database