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Was Fritz Lang Attempting To Outdo Alfred Hitchcock With ‘Secret Beyond the Door’?

While ‘Secret’ is a fairly blatant riff on Hitchcock’s ‘Rebecca,’ the melodrama inherent in Lang’s picture is, at least for those with a taste for noir at its most flamboyant, irresistible.

Joan Bennett, July 1938.
Joan Bennett, July 1938. Cine Mundial via Wikimedia Commons