The Door with Seven Locks (1940)
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 mad doctor uses an iron maiden to systematically eliminate the heirs to the fortune.
- Date of release
- 1940-10-12
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (25)
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Horror, Thriller, Mystery
- Director
- Norman Lee
Casting
- Leslie Banks — Dr. Manetta
- Lilli Palmer — June Lansdowne
- Cathleen Nesbitt — Ann Cody
- Gina Malo — Glenda Baker
- David Horne — Edward Havelock
- Romilly Lunge — Dick Martin
- Richard Bird — Inspector Cornelius 'Andy' Sneed
- J.H. Roberts — Luis Silva
- Aubrey Mallalieu — Lord Charles Francis Selford
- Harry Hutchinson — Bevan Cody
- Phil Ray — Tom Cawler
- George Street — Chief Commissioner
Interesting facts
The Door with Seven Locks is a 1940 British horror film directed by Norman Lee and starring Leslie Banks and Lili Palmer. The screenplay was by John Argyle, Gilbert Gunn and Norman Lee based on the 1926 novel The Door with Seven Locks by Edgar Wallace.
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