Murders in the Rue Morgue
LOVE and MURDER are the two consuming passions of the Rue Morgue!
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. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
- Year: 1971
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Romance
- Studio: American International Pictures
- Keyword: prostitute, paris, france, england, psychopath, haunted house, phantom, hypnosis, buried alive, murder, decapitation, whodunit, grand guignol, axe murder, stage production
- Director: Gordon Hessler
- Cast: Jason Robards, Herbert Lom, Christine Kaufmann, Adolfo Celi, Maria Perschy, Michael Dunn