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Excellent, Without a doubt!!

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Being an amateur artist I paid particular to the voluptuous actress Veola Vonn as (Arlette)who is posing and playing an artist's model.In the unfinished painting (where work has stopped because the light has gone), the artist has already painted a blue sheet covering her on the bed but Arlette is holding up a green sheet to her body.Also freeze framing the scene where she impulsively gets up from the bed in an attempt to slash the unfinished work, clearly shows she is wearing panties even though she is playing a nude model.Of course censorship took its' toll in 1954.My DVD came with the option of French sub-titles or just English dialogue but I would have appreciated French dialogue dubbed on the soundtrack.For example I like to put on Italian dialogue for my DVD of "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" for the Jennifer Jones/William Holden classic from 1955 as Jennifer sounds really sexy with her voice dubbed in this language.The above user comments do not register when you input "La Phantome de la Rue Morgue" into the search box on IMDb.com only the English title which I found surprising as this is how my copy was sold to me.There are some entertaining scenes so I awarded this film 6/10.

A total rip-off of Edgar Allan Poe's short story. The plot is a bunch of crap, it has something to do with an animal running around killing woman. This reason why he does it is also a bunch of crap. Karl Malden is a good actor but totally wasted here. Watch house of wax instead.

The Warner Bros. production of Phantom Of The Rue Morgue is somewhat based on Edgar Allen Poe's Murders In The Rue Morgue. This colorful, 1954 feature was released to theaters in 3-D during the popularity of the 3-D trend. Many changes and additions were made to Poe's story, but the main part of the story - a murderous simian (in this film a gorilla) - remains the same. Possible SPOILERS: Steve Forrest plays a man wrongly accused of murders in turn-of-the-century Paris, and desperately tries to prove his innocence. In the meantime, Karl Malden plays a man who has sent a gorilla to kill all the women who have rejected him. It so happens the girlfriend of the wrongly accused (Patricia Medina) ends up prisoner to Malden, and next victim of the gorilla. I found the film to be ludicrous with most of its plot, and aggravating with many of its characters (the police inspector tops my list.) The film is overloaded with stiff and stilted performances by all actors involved; including it main stars. Overall I found Phantom Of The Rue Morgue to be a stilted production.

This is a good version of the Poe story, and I liked it much more than the Bela Lugosi version. This held my attention throughout the whole movie. The color cinematography was very effective and Steve Forrest and Patricia Medina make a very believable couple. The ending is a bit unintentionally funny, at least to me. And it sure is something to see a very young and a very slim Merv Griffin. LOL.But I do like this version, I think because the Lugosi version has a weird look to it. This is the better version.