Murders in the Rue Morgue

by Edgar Allan Poe, Sidney Fox Bela Lugosi, Leon

$425 · Offered by Royal Books

N.p. N.p., Circa 1932. Vintage double weight reference photograph taken on the set of the 1932 film. An extraordinary photo showing director Robert Florey and cinematographer Karl Freund with actors Sidney Fox and Leon Ames. Contemporary annotations in manuscript ink on the verso.Loosely based on the 1841 short story by Edgar Allan Poe, an atmospheric tale heavily influenced by German Expressionism, about a mad scientist who kidnaps the women of Paris

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