Murders in the Rue Morgue

1971

Action / Crime / Horror / Mystery / Romance / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 20% · 5 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 22% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.2/10 10 1545 1.5K

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Plot summary

In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.


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Maria Perschy as Genevre
Brooke Adams as Nurse
Christine Kaufmann as Madeleine Charron
Jason Robards as Cesar Charron
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1 hr 27 min
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23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ma-cortes 5 / 10

Very loosely based on a tale by Poe , this version was filmed entirely shot on location in Spain

This is a peculiar version taking the basic premise of a Grand Guignol theatre in París at the turn of the Century , which is running an adaptation of Poe's story and whose leading actress : Christine Kauffmann is afficted by bizarre nightmares involving some characters of the play . After many people associated with the theater scenario become murder victms , things go awry . As newspapers publicize : Acid murders in Rue Morgue Theater . Little by little our heroine becomes completely isolated from reality .

A pedestrian, very free and complex adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe that has been remade vary times , though it really nothing to do with the classic novel, Murders in the Rue Morgue . In fact , this film seems to be more Phantom of Opera by Gaston Leroux than Murders in the Rue Morgue by Poe . The action slips forth and back bewilderingly from the play that the protagonists perform to the real events , including some gory scenes. There are style and fascination enough in the weird dream sequences alone to hold the attention for the surprising spectator. Interpretations are uniformly midddling . Jason Robards plays the main actor associated with the production and married to the upsettling Christina Kauffman who becomes involved with a man who killed her mother . While Herbert Lom gives the best acting but repeating his role of Phantom of Opera . With good supporting help including Adolfo Celi as the famous Inspector Vidoq , Lili Palmer , Maria Perschy , Michael Dunn, Peter Arne . Being an US/Spanish coproduction here appears ordinary Spanish secondaries as Victor Israel, Imma de Santis , Maria Martin , Rafael Hernández, and Jose Calvo. There are other better versions about Edgar Allan Poe novel : 1932 by Robert Florey with Bela Lugosi , Sidney Fox and 1986 by Jeannot Szwarc rendition with George C Scott , Rebecca de Mornay .

It packs a colorful and evocative cinematography by Manuel Berenguer , an expert cameraman who had an important career photographing international coproductions . As well as suspenseful and frightening musical score by Waldo de Los Ríos. The motion picture was regularly directed by Gordon Hessler (Scream and scream again, The Oblong box , Cry of Banshee , Golden Voyage of Sinbad).

Reviewed by preppy-3 3 / 10

Colorful but dull

Players at a Paris theatre (run by Jason Robards) become victims of a masked murderer (Herbert Lom). I saw a brand new print of this so the colors were rich and strong...that's about it for compliments. The movie was very obviously filmed in Spain and has erratic performances (even by pros Robards and Lom). Leading lady Christine Kaufmann is a really terrible actress and keeps having the same stupid dream again and again and again and again etc etc. The film is slow-moving, repititious, has lousy make-up (Lom seems to be wearing the exact same face he had in "Phantom of the Opera" in 1964) and the most boring murders ever put on screen...no gore and very little blood. Stick with the 1932 Lugosi version.

Reviewed by mark.waltz 3 / 10

Poe stories shouldn't be done like this nevermore.

A lush and good looking tale of gothic intrigue, this has a great setup being set in late 1800's Paris in a theater that primarily focuses on tales of grand guignole. However, what results is a confusing and emotionally empty film that deals with one of the troop members Herbert Lom who is presumed dead after committing a horrific murder, coming back to seek revenge. Jason Robards plays the troop leader who uncovers the fact that Lom is still living, and the beautiful but lifeless Christine Kaufman plays the leading lady who has a series of horrific nightmares that are basically just the same scene replayed over and over. Michael Dunn is the sniveling dwarf who simply rants and raves to provide more creepiness.

There's little motivation don't you see what you've provided for any of the goings-on here, and the result is a completely disappointing Gothic horror that no more resembles the Bela Lugosi 1932 classic than any of the other American International films celebrating the works of Poe did their original source. But those at least were enjoyable and decently made, and while this has the style, what it doesn't have is the story.

American International at the time was focusing on shocks through gruesome visuals mixed yes with psychedelic nonsense that instantly dates the film's. While some of them (particularly the Dr. Phibes series) come off better, others (like this and "de Sade") are complete misfires. Lom seems to be basically repeating his "Phantom of the Opera" role, yet that at least had the Hammer touch. The Poe touch here has all the bad luck of a black cat attached, so this is one that is easy to scratch off your list.

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