Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790736044 Format: Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC ISBN: 0790736047 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: July 28, 1998 Running Time: 83 minutes Sales Rank: 37405 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: March 27, 1954
Rating: - Great classic version of this story!
One of my favorite movies. Karl Malden is awesom as the
crazed doctor and Steve Forrest as the handsome hero.
The story is changed but this one has mystery and horror
with great acting and directing. The color is pretty cool
for a 50's movie. One of the overlooked movies from 50's!
Highly recommended for any fan of classic mystery and horro.
Rating: - Entertaining Mystery works well on the Strength of Several Talents
The set designs provide the real atmosphere in this film based on Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders In The Rue Morgue" as a series of beautiful women are brutally murdered and the suspect is chased through the gas lighted streets and rooftops of turn-of-the-century Paris after each killing. You can imagine this film tried to catch the feel of 1953's HOUSE OF WAX. Both films were made in 3-D. However, PHANTOM OF THE RUE MORGUE lacks the intensity and absorbing morbidity of that film. Composer David Buttolph scored both films but his brilliant score for HOUSE OF WAX is unfortunately unequaled here lacking a certain fear factor that this film terribly needed. PHANTOM OF THE RUE MORGUE has certain campiness about it bolstered by the performances of Karl Malden's exaggerated sociopathic zoologist and Claude Dauphin's perfunctory and languorous police inspector. On the other hand, Steve Forrest performance as a dedicated and ... Read More
Rating: - HORROR FROM THE 1950'S
I love "PHANTOM OF THE RUE MORGUE".My VHS copy is battered,battered...I hope that, soon ,we'll have a DVD version available.I saw this film in the 1950's(with 3D glasses) at an old movie theatre still standing today in my home town.It was one of the first horror films that I saw and until today it gives me the willies.KARL MALDEN(with a beard)as the scientist-cum-zoo keeper who allows an equally deranged "Thing" to terrorize the streets of Paris is magnificent(I really like his over-the-top performance).Directed by veteran filmmaker Roy Del Ruth,was scripted by Harold Medford&James Webb and is loosely based on the famous short story by Edgar Allan(ALLAN,not 'Allen') Poe,"THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE".Steve Forrest(Dana Andrews's brother)impersonates the detective created by Poe:Dupin.Claude Dauphin,a distinguished french stage&cinema actor portrays a typical police inspector from the Surete and Patricia ... Read More
Rating: - Very fun flick...but better in the original 3-D format
This has always been one of my favorites, though some of the acting is a bit hammy. It's atmospheric, with lush color and probably one of the best gorilla suits ever seen. I was finally able to see it in the original polarized 3-D version last year at the World 3-D Expo in Hollywood, which was a real treat. Star Steve Forrest attended the screening! The film isn't nearly as interesting when robbed of the stereoscopic aspect; but the price is right. If you have the chance, try to catch one of the rare 3-D screenings..
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- Great classic version of this story!
- Entertaining Mystery works well on the Strength of Several Talents 
