Murders in the Rue Morgue

1971

Action / Crime / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Romance / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 20% · 5 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 21% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.2/10 10 1812 1.8K

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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.

Director

Gordon Hessler Photo
Gordon Hessler

Top cast

Maria Perschy Photo
Maria Perschy as Genevre
Adolfo Celi Photo
Adolfo Celi as Inspector Vidocq
Jason Robards Photo
Jason Robards as Cesar Charron
Christine Kaufmann Photo
Christine Kaufmann as Madeleine Charron
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697.8 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
GP
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
Seeds 3
1.47 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
GP
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by talisencrw 7 / 10

In the extra on my Blu-ray of the

In the extra on my Blu-ray of the film, director Hessler states he was upset with Jason Robards' performance in the title role and laments he didn't get to inherit Vincent Price as the film's star when he was asked to direct it. In watching, I quite agree that as fine an actor as Robards was, his heart wasn't in horror and thus his tone is off here. Still, Herbert Lom is great as the antagonist and there are many enjoyable wonders to behold. I strongly feel that had Price acted in Robards' place, this film would have joined the fine string of minor masterpieces Price starred in during that purple patch of his career.
Reviewed by Wuchak 5 / 10

_**Poe mixed with Phantom of the Opera**_ At

_**Poe mixed with Phantom of the Opera**_ At a Grand Guignol-like theater in turn-of-the-century Paris a troupe is beset by a shadowy acid killer. Jason Robards plays the director/actor, Christine Kaufmann his young wife, Lilli Palmer her mother, Herbert Lom a mysterious stalker, Michael Dunn a dubious dwarf and Adolfo Celi the inspector. “Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1971) is not a film version of Edgar Allan Poe’s story, which the viewer is keyed-off to right away with the revelation that the play featured at the theater _IS_ Poe’s “Murders in the Rue Morgan.” The director & writer decided to do something different because Poe’s story was so well known. This movie has more to do with “Phantom of the Opera.” Once you accept that, you can enjoy this AIP flick as a colorful Hammer-like Victorian horror similar to their Dracula or Frankenstein movies, albeit with a different “monster.” The ending features a twist that I found unconvincing, but at least it’s unexpected and shakes things up. Robards is relatively dull as the protagonist, which explains why he wanted Lom’s role. The part called for someone of Vincent Price’s magnetism. The original version of the film runs 1 hour, 38 minutes, which is the version I viewed. Eleven minutes were unfortunately cut for the US debut, which included the removal of sequences from the end of the film, e.g. a lot of Lilli Palmer’s scenes. Director Gordon Hessler objected to these edits, as well as the tinting of the flashback scenes on the grounds that the idea was NOT to tint them so that viewers wouldn't know when they’re seeing a dream sequence or perhaps a flashback or a flash-forward, which hadn't been done before. The movie was shot in Toledo and Madrid, Spain. GRADE: C/C+
Reviewed by Hey_Sweden 6 / 10

The will...lives on...after death.

Jason Robards ("Once Upon a Time in the West"), in a classic case of "What the Hell is HE doing here?", plays Cesar Charron, leader of a theatrical troupe in turn-of-the-century Paris whose troupe is currently doing a gory stage production of the Poe story. Then, people who used to perform with this company turn up dead, all with acid thrown in their faces. The inspector on the case (Adolfo Celi, "Thunderball") is always a couple of steps behind the psychotic, vengeance-seeking killer, naturally.A truly international production, with cast & crew coming from all over the world, this adaptation of Poes' work tells a decent enough story, but a foregone conclusion REALLY takes the edge off the "mystery". Robards is badly miscast (although even he felt so), and gives one of the lesser performances of his career. Not that much of the cast really do their best work here, anyhow. Still, Celi is fun, and the lovely Christine Kaufmann ("Town without Pity") is appealing as the ingenue of the tale. Michael Dunn ('The Wild Wild West') is amusing, as always, and Herbert Lom ("The Dead Zone") is fairly menacing, but even the antagonist that he plays isn't one of his more memorable. The abrupt ending isn't particularly satisfying.It's really the "bells & whistles" of this production that make it as watchable as it is: the production design and cinematography are effective, and the film gets a really nice music score from Waldo de los Rios.Although set in Paris, this was actually filmed in Spain. And that's a very young Brooke Adams ("Days of Heaven"), in her uncredited film debut, playing the nurse.Six out of 10.
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