Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971) UK Quad Poster #New

More of a meld with Phantom of the Opera than a straight adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story Murders in the Rue Morgue has a Grand Guignol theatre company putting on Poe's story as real murders begin to thin the cast, and the heroine's nightmares of an insane axeman becomes confused with reality. Directed by Gordon Hessler, who brought the visual style he employed on all his AIP films, The Oblong Box, De Sade - uncredited (both 1969), Scream and Scream Again and Cry of the Banshee (both 1970), as well as the Harryhausen fantasy The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974).

Condition: FAIR / GOOD - small tear centre top, tape mark upper fold centre, tape burn bottom edge

Cast: Jason Robards, Herbert Lom, Christine Kauffmann, Lilli Palmer, Peter Arne