根据埃德加·爱伦坡同名小说改编。
《厄舍古屋的倒塌》是爱伦坡最着名的心理恐怖小说之一。主人公罗得瑞克的性格，他与妹妹玛德琳的关系，以及他活埋妹妹的动机一直是人们关注的焦点。小说全篇贯穿了大量的意识流描写，堪称心理小说中的精品。
罗德里克与年轻的妻子玛德莱娜生活在厄舍家族的古厦里，一位医生经常来这里看望体弱多病的玛德莱娜。如同厄舍家族的所有男人，罗德里克充满激情地为妻子画肖像。在这个过程中，玛德莱娜的健康每况愈下，好像她的灵魂逐渐转移到了肖像上。随着肖像的完成，玛德莱娜停止了呼吸。深深地爱着妻子的罗德里克相信妻子只是睡着了，拒绝将她埋葬，而是在孤独中等待她的归来。一个电闪雷鸣的夜晚，他终于看到妻子活着回到了自己身边。然后，他们一起飞向天空，看到身下的厄舍古厦在雷击引起的大火中化为灰烬。
本片取材于美国着名小说家爱伦·坡的同名短篇小说，并且参照了他的其他两个短篇小说。坡的小说可以分为恐怖小说和推理小说两大类，《厄舍古厦的倒塌》属于前者。坡自称他的小说的特点在于“把滑稽提高到怪诞，把害怕发展到恐惧，把机智扩大成嘲弄，把奇特变化为怪异和神秘”。影片《厄舍古厦的倒塌》通过非常的摄影角度、特写镜头、画面迭印、镜头移动等艺术技巧，较好地传达了原着的恐怖和神秘气氛。影片发行后虽然获得评论界的好评，但是未能取得令人满意的票房。值得提及的是，路易斯·布努艾尔以助理的身份参加了这部影片的创作。本片导演让·爱普斯坦（1897—1953）是法国20年代印象派电影的重要代表人物之一，起初从事电影理论研究和影评写作，20年代初开始导演生涯，一生中创作过约30部影片。1924年，法国的印象派电影随着其创始人路易·德吕克的去世而宣告结束，爱普斯坦转而拍摄先锋派的新影片。萨杜尔语说，受表现主义影响，爱普斯坦拍摄的先锋派电影“专供那些光顾专门性的电影院的有高等文化修养的人士观看”。

Le Mystère de la Tour Eiffel is a spectacular adventure film by French director Julien Duvivier (Pépé le Moko, La Belle Equipe). It tells the story of the naive circus artist Achilles Saturnin whose business partner steals his papers, poses as him and causes Saturnin to miss out on a huge inheritance. When members of the crime syndicate Ku Klux Eiffel also set their sights on the fortune, Saturnin seems doomed. But then Saturnin decides to challenge the hoodlums; a series of daredevil exploits on top of the Eiffel Tower follows.
The adventurous character of the film is indisputable. But in fact, Le Mystère de la Tour Eiffel is much more than just an adventure film. Rather, it’s a combination of several genres so that there is something for everybody: There is (of course!) a love story between Achilles and a cute artist named Sylvanie. There are elements of social drama, e.g. when Achilles loses his job because his twins-act is nothing without his partner who disappeared and so Achilles hungers. It is a detective film, contains allusions to historical groups/ events (the Ku-Klux-Clan), artistic styles (cubism) and it hints (self reflexive) at the fairground-roots of the cinema by integrating fairground motifs in the story (e.g. a haunted house chair on with Achilles drives tied up through the Rochenoire Castle, the shadow play that illustrated the nightmare of the fraud) and by laying the starting point of the plot in the fair environment. Most notably Le Mystère de la Tour Eiffel has a strong comedy tendency of slapstick that runs through the whole film. There are a lot of small gags and effects that make Duvivier’s film and its hero loveable and show the filmmaker's sense for detail.
— Cannes Press Kit

King Louis XI tries to unify France by all means fair or foul, which does not please his powerful rival Charles the Bold. It is against this troubled backdrop that the loves of the daughter of a wealthy bourgeois and the king's god-daughter Jeanne Fouquet and knight Robert Cottereau unfurl in spite of all the obstacles in their way. One of these being a pack of hungry wolves trying to stop Jeanne from carrying out an important mission assigned to her by the king himself

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