The Spiral Staircase
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DVD Features:
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 23 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Released: October 2, 2018
- Originally Released: 1946
- Label: KL Studio Classics
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Note: Audio Commentary by Film Historian Imagen Sara Smith
- 1945 Screen Director's Playhouse Radio Broadcast of "The Spiral Staircase" with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Siodmak
- Theatrical Trailer
- Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
- Subtitles - English
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Dorothy McGuire, George Brent & Ethel Barrymore | |
| Performer: | Kent Smith, Gordon Oliver, Rhonda Fleming, Rhys Williams, Sara Allgood & Elsa Lanchester | |
| Directed by | Robert Siodmak | |
| Edited by | Harry Marker & Harry Gerstad | |
| Screenplay by | Mel Dinelli | |
| Original story by | Ethel Lina White | |
| Composition by | Roy Webb | |
| Art Direction by | Albert S. D'Agostino & Jack Okey | |
| Produced by | Dore Schary | |
| Director of Photography: | Nicholas Musuraca |
Entertainment Reviews:
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It's one of the undoubted masterpieces of the Gothic mode.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/5 --
Although its whodunnit aspect is weak, the strong camera angles and cast performance make this a fine film.
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Empire Magazine
Erected on expressionistic Gothic menace
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CinePassion
...Siodmak's superb horror film broaches some very sinister themes...
Sight and Sound
This is a smooth production of an obvious, though suspenseful murder thriller, ably acted and directed. Mood and pace are well set, and story grips throughout.
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Variety
The Spiral Staircase, a murder mystery, knowingly paced by Director Robert Siodmak and shrewdly acted by an expert cast, including Ethel Barrymore, is choice, eerie entertainment.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A haunted house tale where the ghosts are all too human.
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Product Description:
Robert Siodmak's THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE is a classic Hitchcockian thriller set in a shadow-filled Victorian house. The manor's mute servant girl, Helen (Dorothy McGuire), is threatened by a murderer on the premises--a killer who targets those burdened by afflictions....
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- Sales Rank: 12,661
- UPC: 738329215255
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