Phantom of the Rue Morgue is a 1954 American mystery horror film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Karl Malden, Claude Dauphin and Patricia Medina.

[2] The film is an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 short story The Murders in the Rue Morgue.

Following another western, The Moonlighter (1953), starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, the studio attempted to repeat the success they had with House of Wax the previous year.

This movie was based on the same story which had formed the basis of a 1932 horror film which stars Bela Lugosi.

[4] In 1870s France, a string of strange murders occur on the Rue Morgue, a fictional street in Paris.