- Behind Locked Doors
Infobox Film | name = Behind Locked Doors
caption = DVD cover from the Kino Video release
director =Budd Boetticher
producer = Eugene Ling
writer = Eugene Ling (story and screenplay)
Malvin Wald (screenplay)
starring =Lucille Bremer Richard Carlson Douglas Fowley
music =
cinematography =
editing =
distributor = Eagle-Lion Films Inc.
released =September 3 , 1948 (U.S. release)
runtime = 62 min
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0040153"Behind Locked Doors" is a 1948
black-and-white B-movie starringLucille Bremer . The movie, directed byBudd Boetticher , runs a scant 62 minutes. The film also starsRichard Carlson and featuresTor Johnson (uncredited) as 'The Champ'. Like many films noir, the lighting is used creatively to hide some cheap sets and other signs of a low movie budget.Plot
A
private detective goes undercover in an asylum in search of a judge who is hiding out from the police. The detective was hired by a pretty reporter that's sure that the judge is hiding out in the private sanitarium. The reporter and P.I. begin to fall in love as well as falling more and more into danger from abusive attendants and other guests of the asylum. Other inmates include anarsonist patient and 'The Champ,' a man who attacks anyone put into a room with him.Reviews for the movie when released on DVD in 2002 were mixed. [http://avclub.com/content/node/3938 Keith Phipps, writing for the Onion AV Club] , found that they don't make
B-movies like they used to. He wrote this of Behind Locked Doors: "A probable inspiration forSam Fuller 's "Shock Corridor ", "Doors" suffers in comparison; Fuller made transcendentB-movies , and this isn't one. In just about every other respect, however, it's everything it should be: fast-paced, stylishly shot, a little lurid, a little topical, and thoroughly entertaining." When asked about the similarity of his film's story to the earlier film, director Sam Fuller pointed out that both scripts were based on a newspaper incident in the 1940s (Fuller had been a newspaper reporter at the time.)References
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*imdb title|id=0040153|title=Behind Locked Doors
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