FILM 1119: SECRET BEYOND THE
DOOR...
TRIVIA: The grove of trees that
Joan Bennett runs through when she flees the house is the same grove that the
Wolf Man ran through in the 1941 film, also made by Universal. In particular,
the tree she leans against is the same one that the Wolf Man is beaten under.
Fritz Lang's attempt to do
his version of Rebecca
(1940) was a project fraught with disaster. It ran over budget and over
schedule, while Lang was at constant loggerheads with his leading lady, Joan Bennett. The first
preview of the film attracted comments like "beyond human endurance"
and "it stinks". Bennett herself referred to the film as "an
unqualified disaster".
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