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The Spiral Staircase is a 1946 American psychological horror film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, and Ethel Barrymore. Set over the course of one evening, the film follows a mute young woman in an early-20th century Vermont town who is stalked and terrorized in a rural mansion by a serial killer targeting ...
A classic horror film about a mute maid who is hunted by a serial killer in a haunted mansion. IMDb provides cast and crew details, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, soundtracks and more for this suspenseful thriller.
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....
A mute girl is a suspect and a target of a serial killer who preys on women with disabilities in a small town. She seeks help from a doctor who falls in love with her and wants to take her to Boston.
The Spiral Staircase is a 1946 American psychological thriller film directed by Robert Siodmak, from a screenplay by Mel Dinelli based on Ethel Lina White's novel Some Must Watch (1933). The novel was adapted for a radio production starring Helen Hayes before reaching the screen.
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.
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….
