Murders in the Rue Morgue (Edgar Allan Poe\'s Murders in the Rue Morgue) (1971)

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Directed by

Gordon Hessler

Starring (View all)

Jason Robards
Cesar Charron

Herbert Lom
Rene Marot

Christine Kaufmann
Madeleine Charron

Adolfo Celi
Inspector Vidocq

Maria Perschy
Genevre

Michael Dunn
Pierre Triboulet

Lilli Palmer
Mrs. Charron

Peter Arne
Aubert

Written by

Edgar Allan Poe
(story)

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Murders in the Rue Morgue is a 1971 American horror film directed by Gordon Hessler, starring Jason Robards and Herbert Lom. It is ostensibly an adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story of the same name, although it departs from the story in several significant aspects, at times more resembling Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera. In an interview on the film's DVD, Hessler said that he thought everyone already knew the ending of the story, so he felt it necessary to reinvent the plot.

Release date: 1 September 1971

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"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. This loose adaption of the Edgar Allen Poe story is nothing special. It has shades of Phantom of the Opera combined into the "