The Sealed Room
5.0 / 10
11 minutes
1909-09-02
No Language
US
Actors :
Arthur V. Johnson, Marion Leonard, Henry B. Walthall, Mary Pickford, George Siegmann, Mack Sennett, Linda Arvidson, Owen Moore
Description
The Count sets out to make a private room for him and his Countess, built in such a way no one can see, hear, and most importantly, disturb them. But unbeknownst to the Count, his wife has set her eyes on the court minstrel. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's “The Cask of Amontillado” and Honoré de Balzac's “La Grande Breteche”.
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RottenPop
6/23/2021, 3:57:54 PM
D.W. Griffith brings us the longest running horror movie to date (1909). It is less horror and more tragic as the movie is probably one of the first “Horror” movies to actually tug on your heart strings a bit. This is also a movie that proves that there are other directors out there not just George Melies. The story is simple enough, we have a king who has constructed a “Pleasure Room” for hims...