The Door with Seven Locks (1940 film)

The Door with Seven Locks
Film poster with the US title
Directed by	Norman Lee
Screenplay by	John Argyle Gilbert Gunn Norman Lee
Based on	The Door with Seven Locks by Edgar Wallace
Produced by	John Argyle
Starring	Leslie Banks Lilli Palmer Romilly Lunge Gina Malo
Cinematography	Alex Bryce Ernest Palmer
Edited by	E.G. Richards
Music by	Guy Jones
Production company	John Argyle Productions
Distributed by	Pathé Pictures (UK)
Release dates	12 October 1940 (1940-10-12) (UK) 20 December 1940 (1940-12-20) (US)
Running time	89 minutes (UK) 79 minutes (US)
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Door with Seven Locks is a 1940 British horror film, created and released shortly after the British Board of Film Censors lifted its mid-1930s ban on supernatural-themed and horror genre films. It was based on the 1926 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 Dark Eyes of London (called The Human Monster in the US),^[1] starring Béla Lugosi, which had been released the year before.

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 causes 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 as Dr. Manetta
• Lilli Palmer as June Lansdowne
• Romilly Lunge as Dick Martin
• Gina Malo as Glenda Baker
• David Horne as Edward Havelock
• Richard Bird as Inspector Sneed
• Cathleen Nesbitt as Ann Cody
• JH Roberts as Luis Silva
• Aubrey Mallalieu as Lord Charles Francis Selford
• Harry Hutchinson as Bevan Cody
• Ross Landon as John Selford
• Phil Ray as Tom Cawler
• Robert Montgomery as Craig the Butler

See also[]

• The Door with Seven Locks (1962)

References[]

External links[]

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