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Director
  
Roy Del Ruth

Music director
  
David Buttolph

Country
  
United States

5.8/10
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Genre
  
Crime, Horror, Mystery

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Phantom of the Rue Morgue movie poster

Release date
  
March 27, 1954

Based on
  
The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Writer
  
Edgar Allan Poe (story), Harold Medford (screenplay), James R. Webb (screenplay)

Screenplay
  
James R. Webb, Harold Medford

Cast
  
Karl Malden
(Dr. Marais),
Claude Dauphin
(Insp. Bonnard),
Patricia Medina
(Jeanette),
Steve Forrest
(Prof. Paul Dupin),
Allyn Ann McLerie
(Yvonne (as Allyn McLerie)),
Anthony Caruso
(Jacques the One-Eyed)

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Stonehearst Asylum
,
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,
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,
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
,
The Masque of the Red Death
,
House of Usher

Tagline
  
Mad passions, madder deeds in the Edgar Allan Poe chiller!

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Phantom of the Rue Morgue is a 1954 feature film directed by Roy Del Ruth (known for directing The Terror) and starring Karl Malden and Claude Dauphin. The film is an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue".

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Warner Bros. released 3D productions during the 1950s, including the big-budget The Charge at Feather River (1953). Following another western, The Moonlighter (1953), starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, the studio attempted to repeat the success they had with House of Wax the previous year. This movie was based the same story which had formed the basis of a 1932 horror film which stars Bela Lugosi.

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Plot summary

In France in the 1870s, a string of strange murders happen in the Rue Morgue. The authorities are baffled, but they do have one man who may have the answers, Prof. Dupin.

When Dupin is approached by the police to help, he agrees. Soon a set of suspects are found, including a sailor named Jacques and a professor named Marais, who is involved in unauthorized (and bizarre) animal experiments.

Cast

  • Karl Malden as Dr. Marais
  • Claude Dauphin as Insp. Bonnard
  • Patricia Medina as Jeanette
  • Steve Forrest as Prof. Paul Dupin
  • Allyn Ann McLerie as Yvonne
  • Anthony Caruso as Jacques the One-Eyed
  • Veola Vonn as Arlette
  • Dolores Dorn as Camille
  • Merv Griffin as Georges Brevert
  • Paul Richards as Rene the Knife-thrower
  • Rolfe Sedan as LeBon (as Rolphe Sedan)
  • Erin O'Brien-Moore as Wardrobe Woman
  • Charles Gemora as Sultan, The Gorilla
  • The Flying Zacchinis as Themselves

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