Carlos Hugo Christensen – No abras nunca esa puerta AKA Never Open That Door (1952)
Preserved by the Film Noir Foundation in 2013 and now beautifully restored through the UCLA Film & Television Archive, Never Open That Door (No abras nunca esa puerta) is a significant example of the cross-cultural cinematic legacy shared by the United States and Argentina during the post-WWII era. Based on two short stories by American master of suspense fiction Cornell Woolrich (Rear Window, Phantom Lady, The Bride Wore Black), the film is brilliantly directed by Argentine filmmaker Carlos Hugo Christensen with extraordinary cinematography by Pablo Tabernero. Says FNF founder Eddie Muller about this recent restoration, “It is a revelation to experience the work of an all-American author, in Spanish, and rendered as well – or perhaps better – than any Hollywood adaptation of his work.”
Never Open That Door is one of the most evocative realizations of Woolrich ever produced, featuring masterful sequences of sustained suspense. Said Buenos Aires film critic Horacio Bernades, “Rarely has an Argentine film been more purely cinematic than this.”
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“This extraordinary 1952 Argentinian noir … is probably the most bedarkened, beshadowed film I’ve seen, full of extreme closeups, unexpected sound effects and music. It deserves to be restored and reissued.” – Paul Schrader
Never.Open.That.Door.1952.BDRIP.576p.x264.FLAC.KJNU.mkv
General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1 h 24 min
Size: 2.01 GiB
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 790x576
Aspect ratio: 1.372
Frame rate: 23.976 fps
Bit rate: 3 000 kb/s
BPP: 0.275
Audio
#1: Spanish 1.0ch FLAC @ 199 kb/s (Main Audio)
#2: English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Commentary with author and film historian Guido Segal)
https://nitro.download/view/7253304434410AC/Never.Open.That.Door.1952.BDRIP.576p.x264.FLAC.KJNU.mkv
Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English
