The Sealed Room (1909 film)
| The Sealed Room | |
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| Directed by | D. W. Griffith |
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| Cinematography | G. W. Bitzer |
| Music by | Robert Israel |
| Distributed by | Biograph Company |
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Running time | 11 minutes (original release length 779 feet) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Sealed Room (also known as The Sealed Door) is an eleven-minute film released in September 1909. Produced by the Biograph Company and directed by D. W. Griffith, the drama's cast includes Arthur V. Johnson, Marion Leonard, Henry B. Walthall, Mary Pickford, and Mack Sennett. It was distributed to theaters on a split-reel with another film, the three-minute comedy short The Little Darling.
The story draws from Honoré de Balzac's La Grande Bretêche and Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask of Amontillado, both of which inspired the film's central theme of immurement.