Murders In The Rue Morgue

Gordon Hessler (director)
Edgar Allan Poe (novel)
Christopher Wicking, Henry Slesar (screenwriter)
Jason Robards, Herbert Lom, Christine Kaufmann, Adolfo Cei, Maria Perschy (starring)

Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1971. Vintage photograph of Gordon Hessler shooting on the set of the 1971 film. Mimeo snipe with identifying manuscript annotations in pencil.

Based loosely on the Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 story of the same name. Madeline is an actress in a theater troupe in Paris at the turn of the century that is performing Poe's "Murders In The Rue Morgue." Her mother was murdered bye an ax-man some years ago, and all of a sudden Madeline begins to dream of the same horrible killer. Soon after these dreams a former lover of Madeline's mother, long thought to be dead after an accident on stage, comes back to murder members of the troupe.

8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.


[Book #144376]