bkoganbing Only in the cinema could the romantic relationship of a model and a cabbie ever could happen. They don't usually happen even in film unless the cabbie is an exiled prince or something like that. But in Seven Doors To Death cabbie Chick Chandler hooks up with model June Clyde to solve a big mystery with several deaths involving jewels and the ownership of an apartment complex.Chandler's dragged in unwillingly at the point of a gun by Clyde who commandeers him and his cab. She's fleeing a murder scene and Chandler's cab is totaled. After that Chandler declares himself a detective and of course solves the mystery.The courtyard apartment complex looked something like the one in Rear Window where Jimmy Stewart watched the parade of life. Of course Rear Window is a far better film.The cheap and tacky sets and inferior sound mark this PRC release. But most of all I couldn't accept the premise or Chandler as a romantic lead.

mark.waltz And it isn't you with the time you killed watching this. There's a major difference between complex and convoluted, and this poverty row thriller ends up being the later. Some of these "Z" grade thrillers stand out because they grab you from the very beginning, but this PRC programmer instantly creates so much confusion that you feel the need to start it all over again to make sure that you didn't miss anything. That's because the unremarkable set-up (a murder discovered near a series of shops and an apartment complex) doesn't help.In spite of a genuinely spooky atmosphere, the film lacks in performance, pacing, and overall thrills. The art direction of the complex is actually quite well done. The film's pacing makes the film seem much longer than its single hour. As far as the acting is concerned, it really comes off as a country community theatre re-doing old melodramas with a present day setting. THis is one time when PRC does stand for Pretty Rotten Cinema.

gridoon2018 "Seven Doors To Death" is a very murky film, in both senses of the word: visually and in content. Sometimes we are practically looking at a black screen, especially during in scenes set in cellars, basements, etc. But it's also very hard to know who is who, to keep the story straight, and what's even worse, to care. The writer-director of this movie has over 90 credits on IMDb, so it's hard to know how he could have gone so wrong in this case. Then again, the fact that he directed 9 (!!) films in 1944 alone probably means he didn't have enough time to afford the proper care to every one of them. I'd give this forgettable mystery * out of 4 - and that's only for Rebel Randall's leggy and scrappy femme fatale.

Michael O'Keefe Low budget mystery. A shot rattles out of the dark and a woman is seen running from that direction. A young architect Jimmy McMillan(Chick Chandler)discovers a dead body that goes missing. The woman in a hurry, Mary(June Clyde), is linked to the death scene; but it is McMillan that has to try and solve the case to avoid serious suspicion. Suspects are six shop owners in the vicinity of the crime scene. All the atmosphere of Film-Noir; but not quite the real thing. This flick musters just enough to be a decent low budget mystery/drama and is a nice little escape. Other players include: George Meeker, Michael Raffetto, Milton Wallace and Rebel Randall.