The Door with Seven Locks (1940 film)
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| Directed by | Norman Lee |
| Screenplay by | John Argyle Gilbert Gunn Norman Lee |
| Based on | The Door with Seven Locks 1926 novel by Edgar Wallace |
| Produced by | John Argyle |
| Starring | Leslie Banks Lilli Palmer Romilly Lunge Gina Malo |
| Cinematography | Alex Bryce Ernest Palmer |
| Edited by | E.G. Richards |
| Music by | Guy Jones |
Production company | John Argyle Productions |
| Distributed by | Pathé Pictures (UK) |
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Running time | 89 minutes (UK) 79 minutes (US) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Door with Seven Locks is a 1940 British horror film directed by Norman Lee and starring Leslie Banks and Lili Palmer. The screenplay was by John Argyle, Gilbert Gunn and Norman Lee based on the 1926 novel The Door with Seven Locks by Edgar Wallace. Released in the United States by Monogram Pictures under the title Chamber of Horrors, it was the second Wallace film adaptation to arrive in the United States, the first being The Dark Eyes of London (called The Human Monster in the US), starring Béla Lugosi, which had been released the year before.
It was released shortly after the British Board of Film Censors lifted its mid-1930s ban on supernatural-themed and horror genre films.