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* ShoutOut: There are a quite a few visual and plot-related references to Edgar Allan Poe's stories and themes they explored. These include the BuriedAlive plotline, strange dreams, a MasqueradeBall, a vengeful dwarf, elaborate and gruesome revenge.
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** The ''Murders in the Rue Morgue''
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* TheatrePhantom: During the climax, Marot is chasing Madeline around the theatre while wearing [[CoatHatMask top hat, opera cape and mask]], and swings from the rigging in a manner very reminiscent of the Phantom of the Opera.
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* TheatrePhantom: During the climax, Marot is chasing Madeline around the theatre while wearing a talented disfigured artist, who wears [[CoatHatMask top hat, opera cape and mask]], and a mask]] to disguise his scarred face, swings from the rigging rigging, stalks a theatre building and is in love with a manner very reminiscent of leading lady. The fact he's played by HerbertLom, who played the Phantom of the Opera.in 1962 Hammer studio adaptation, certainly doesn't harm.
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In 19th-century Paris, theater impresario Cesar Charron (Robards) is staging a gruesome theatrical version of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". His wife Madeleine (Kaufmann) is playing the female lead and suffering from horrible nightmares. These nightmares prove to be an ominous prediction of the future when members of the cast start turning up dead, and Inspector Vidocq of the Sûreté investigates. Cesar suspects that the murders are the work of his former partner, René Marot (Lom). But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
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In late 19th-century Paris, theater impresario Cesar Charron (Robards) is staging a gruesome theatrical version of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". His wife Madeleine (Kaufmann) is playing the female lead and suffering from horrible nightmares. These nightmares prove to be an ominous prediction of the future when members of the cast start turning up dead, and Inspector Vidocq of the Sûreté investigates. Cesar suspects that the murders are the work of his former partner, René Marot (Lom). But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
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* BestServedCold: Morat waits 20 years before taking revenge on Cesar and his troupe: the spur being Cesar marrying Madeline.
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* BestServedCold: Morat waits 20 12 years before taking revenge on Cesar and his troupe: the spur being Cesar marrying Madeline.
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* ConspicuouslyPublicAssassination: Morat murders Orsini at the climax of Orsini's BuriedAlive act, when he surrounded by a crowd of spectators, including Inspector Vidocq and several policemen.
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* ConspicuouslyPublicAssassination: Morat Marot murders Orsini at the climax of Orsini's BuriedAlive act, when he surrounded by a crowd of spectators, including Inspector Vidocq and several policemen.
* TheIgor: In the InUniverse ''Murders in the Rue Morgue'' play, the major antagonist, played by Cesar, has a hunchbacked henchman called Varga, who kidnaps the female protagonist, played by Madeline.
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* SlashedThroat: Morat murders those he blames for his disfigurement but pouring HollywoodAcid on their faces. The others he kills, who are merely in his way--like Vidocq's detective at the carousel and Jean who is guarding Madeline's door--he kills by slashing their throat.
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* ShoutOut: There are a quite a few visual and plot-related references to Edgar Allan Poe's stories and themes they explored. These include the BuriedAlive plotline, strange dreams, a MasqueradeBall, a vengeful dwarf, elaborate and gruesome revenge.
* SlashedThroat:Morat Marot murders those he blames for his disfigurement but pouring HollywoodAcid on their faces. The others he kills, who are merely in his way--like Vidocq's detective at the carousel and Jean who is guarding Madeline's door--he kills by slashing their throat.
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* WifeHusbandry: It is all but directly stated that Cesar raised Madeline after secretly murdering her mother, only to marry her eventually. The fact Madeline is suggested to be around 19 years old during the movie's major events doesn't help the case.
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* InNameOnly: The film itself plays extremely loose with the source material, but humorously enough, the InUniverse stage play adaptation doesn't have much to do with the original story either, with a completely original climax.
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* InNameOnly: The While the actual film itself plays extremely loose with obviously bears almost no resemblance to the source material, but humorously this actually doesn't stop there. Humorously enough, the InUniverse stage play adaptation doesn't have much to do with the original story short either, with sporting an entirely new human killer who acts as an abusive owner of the killer primate. It's not even the same primate, being a completely original climax.traditional gorilla, instead of an orangutan like in the book.
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* BlindAlley: After Marot murders Erik at the theatre, he is pursued by an angry mob. He escapes them by stepping into a narrow alley. After the mob runs past, he steps out and goes on his way, [[PetTheDog dropping a coin the cup of a blind beggar]] as he goes.
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* PetTheDog: After escaping the angry mob, the murderer Marot drops a coin in the cup of a blind beggar he passes.
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* ConspicuouslyPublicAssassination: Morat murders Orsini at the climax of Orsini's BuriedAlive act, when he surrounded by a crowd of spectators, including Inspector Vidocq and several policemen.
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* LingerieScene: When Cesar visits HighClassCallGirl Genevre, she is dressed in sexy period lingerie, including a [[OfCorsetsSexy corset]].
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* BestServedCold: Morat waits 20 years before taking revenge on Cesar and his troupe: the spur being Cesar marrying Madeline.
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: In Madeline's recurring nightmares, the man with the axe keeps cutting through one of the ropes in the theatre, causing a rope to drop from the rigging. During the climax, [[spoiler:Marot is using one of the ropes to descend from the rigging towards her on the stage. Seeing the axe on stage, Madeline realises that the dream ahs been tellin ger how to defeat Marot. She grabs the axe, cuts through the rope and Marot plunges to his death]].
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: In Madeline's recurring nightmares, the man with the axe keeps cutting through one of the ropes in the theatre, causing a rope to drop from the rigging. During the climax, [[spoiler:Marot is using one of the ropes to descend from the rigging towards her on the stage. Seeing the axe on stage, Madeline realises that the dream ahs has been tellin ger telling her how to defeat Marot. She grabs the axe, cuts through the rope and Marot plunges to his death]].
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* EyesAreUnbreakable: Morat's eyes are fine, despite his face all around them being destroyed by acid.
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* HollywoodAcid: Marot's [[FacialHorror face was destroyed]] by acid in a NotSoFakePropWeapon incident,and he later uses similar acid as his murder weapon.
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* HighClassCallGirl: Genevre used to be an actress in Cesar's troupe, and is now an exclusive courtesan.
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* OfCorsetsSexy: Cesar visits one of his former actresses who is now a [[HighClassCallGirl exclusive courtesan]]. She is dressed in a corset and stockings, and stays dressed that way for when her next client visits her.
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* GorgeousPeriodDress: Features many scenes of men in evening wear and women in glorious La Belle Époque evening gowns.
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* TheGay90s: Set in the closing years of the 1890s.
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: In Madeline's recurring nightmares, the man with the axe keeps cutting through one of the ropes in the theatre, causing a rope to drop from the rigging. During the climax, [[spoiler:Marot is using one of the ropes to descend from the rigging towards her on the stage. Seeing the axe on stage, Madeline realises that the dream ahs been tellin ger how to defeat Marot. She grabs the axe, cuts through the rope and Marot plunges to his death]].
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* HarmfulToMinors: After Cesar and Madeline are abducted, it is revealed that when she was a child, Madeline had seen her mother murdered [[spoiler:by Cesar]], but had completely blocked it from her mind; even to the extent of forgetting the home where she used to live.
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* NewspaperThinDisguise: Marot does not even bother pretending to read the newspaper, but just holds it up to the side of his face when he sneaks into the theatre. Nobody notices anything.
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* TheatrePhantom: During the climax, Marot is chasing Madeline around the theatre while wearing [[CoatHatMask top hat, opera cape and mask]], and swings from the rigging in a manner very reminiscent of the Phantom of the Opera.
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* OffWithHisHead: Marot murders [[spoiler:Cesar]] by beheading with an axe.
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* VorpalPillow: Cesar and Madeline smother Marot with a pillow and hide his body in his sarcophagus in the crypt. However, Marot survives by the using the [[ChekhovsSkill deep breathing trick]] he had earlier used to [[FakingTheDead fake his suicide]].
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* BuriedAlive: Marot [[FakingTheDead faked his suicide]] and used a deep breathing trick taught to him by Orsini to survive being buried.
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* FacialHorror: Marot's face was hideously disfigured by acid, and that is now how he murders all of his victims.
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* SwordCane: Pierre Triboulet, the dwarf who is assisting Marot, carries one. Unfortunately for him, he is not very adept at using it and, when he attacks Cesar, Cesar takes it off him and stabs him with it.
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* EtherealWhiteDress: Madeline is also dressed in one in her recurring nightmares.
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* CoatHatMask: The murderer wears a top hat, and opera cape and a flesh-coloured Phantom of the Opera mask.
* CoatHatMask: The murderer wears a top hat, and opera cape and a flesh-coloured Phantom of the Opera mask.
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* NotSoFakePropWeapon: Marot is scarred when the fake acid in a prop bottle on the stage was replaced with real acid, and Madeline's mother tossed it into his face during a performance.
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''Murders in the Rue Morgue'' is a 1971 American horror film directed by Gordon Hessler, starring Creator/JasonRobards, Christine Kaufmann, Creator/HerbertLom, Lilli Palmer, and Creator/AldolfoCeli.Creator/AdolfoCeli. It is a loose adaptation of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's 1841 [[Literature/CAugusteDupin short story of the same name]], although makes several significant departures from the original story and incorporates aspects of Gaston Leroux's ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''.
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''Murders in the Rue Morgue'' is a 1971 American horror film directed by Gordon Hessler, starring Creator/JasonRobards, Christine Kaufmann, Creator/HerbertLom, Lilli Palmer, and Creator/AldolfoCeli. It is a loose adaptation of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's 1841 [[Literature/CAugusteDupin short story of the same name]], although makes several significant departures from the original story and incorporates aspects ofCreator/GastonLeroux's Gaston Leroux's ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''.
''Murders in the Rue Morgue'' is a 1971 American horror film directed by Gordon Hessler, starring Creator/JasonRobards, Christine Kaufmann, Creator/HerbertLom, Lilli Palmer, and Creator/AldolfoCeli. It is a loose adaptation of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's 1841 [[Literature/CAugusteDupin short story of the same name]], although makes several significant departures from the original story and incorporates aspects of
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* FakeActionPrologue: Opens with a KillerGorilla breaking loose, kidnapping Madeline, then being shot by the police and beheading a MadScientist before he dies. This is then revealed to the climax to Cesar's stage version of ''Murders in the Rue Morgue''.
* MuggedForDisguise: In the opening scenes, Marot murders Eric--the actor playing the ape in the play--steals his costume and takes his place in the play.
* FakeActionPrologue: Opens with a KillerGorilla breaking loose, kidnapping Madeline, then being shot by the police and beheading a MadScientist before he dies. This is then revealed to the climax to Cesar's stage version of ''Murders in the Rue Morgue''.
* MuggedForDisguise: In the opening scenes, Marot murders Eric--the actor playing the ape in the play--steals his costume and takes his place in the play.
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''Murders in the Rue Morgue'' is a 1971 American horror film directed by Gordon Hessler, starring Creator/JasonRobards, Christine Kaufmann, Creator/HerbertLom, and Lilli Palmer. Palmer, and Creator/AldolfoCeli. It is a loose adaptation of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's 1841 [[Literature/MurdersInTheRueMorgue [[Literature/CAugusteDupin short story of the same name]], although makes several significant departures from the original story and incorporates aspects of Creatoor/GastonLeroux's Creator/GastonLeroux's ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''.
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''Murders in the Rue Morgue'' is a 1971 American horror film directed by Gordon Hessler, starring Creator/JasonRobards, Christine Kaufmann, Creator/HerbertLom, and Lilli Palmer. It is a loose adaptation of Creattor/EdgarAllanPoe's Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's 1841 [[Literature/MurdersInTheRueMorgue short story of the same name]], although makes several significant departures from the original story and incorporates aspects of Creatoor/GastonLeroux's ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''.
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''Murders in the Rue Morgue'' is a 1971 American horror film directed by Gordon Hessler, starring Creator/JasonRobards, Christine Kaufmann, Creator/HerbertLom, and Lilli Palmer. It is a loose adaptation of Creattor/EdgarAllanPoe's 1841 [[Literature/MurdersInTheRueMorgue short story of the same name]], although makes several significant departures from the original story and incorporates aspects of Creatoor/GastonLeroux's ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''.
In 19th-century Paris, theater impresario Cesar Charron (Robards) is staging a gruesome theatrical version of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". His wife Madeleine (Kaufmann) is playing the female lead and suffering from horrible nightmares. These nightmares prove to be an ominous prediction of the future when members of the cast start turning up dead, and Inspector Vidocq of the Sûreté investigates. Cesar suspects that the murders are the work of his former partner, René Marot (Lom). But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
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In 19th-century Paris, theater impresario Cesar Charron (Robards) is staging a gruesome theatrical version of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". His wife Madeleine (Kaufmann) is playing the female lead and suffering from horrible nightmares. These nightmares prove to be an ominous prediction of the future when members of the cast start turning up dead, and Inspector Vidocq of the Sûreté investigates. Cesar suspects that the murders are the work of his former partner, René Marot (Lom). But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
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