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In a village in 1906 Vermont, Helen, a mute girl, attends a silent film screening in a local inn. During the screening, a paraplegic woman limps out of the theatre to her room. She is strangled by a man who was hiding in her closet. Her murder is the third in a string of killings in the community.
The Spiral Staircase: Directed by Robert Siodmak. With Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith. In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions"; one night during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.
May 7, 2021 · The Spiral Staircase Is A 1946 American Psychological Horror Film.Directed By Robert Siodmak And Starring Dorothy Mcguire, George Brent, And Ethel Barrymore....
The Spiral Staircase. Summaries. In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions"; one night during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.
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, is threatened by a murderer on the premises—a killer who targets those burdened by afflictions….
Genre master Robert Siodmak’s noir “The Spiral Staircase” has a gaze as fixed on metaphor as its villain‘s stare is set on the work’s silent heroine. In “Staircase,” Dorothy McGuire stars as a mute maid confined to an early 20th century Vermont manor while a serial killer targeting the disabled hunts victims in the nearby town.
It’s the quintessential Gothic formula: a serial killer traps an innocent, young girl in an old, dark mansion of the past. In the hands of master Robert Siodmak, this formula adds a noir ethos and expressionist aesthetic to create one of the most entertaining period thrillers in the noir cycle: The Spiral Staircase.
