Spiral Staircase (1946)
by Robert Siodmak
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Actor: Dorothy McGuire, Ethel Barrymore, George Brent, Kent Smith, Rhonda FlemingDirector: Robert Siodmak
Cinematographer: Nicholas Musuraca
Editor: Harry Marker
Editor: Harry W. Gerstad
Producer: Dore Schary
Writer: Ethel Lina White
Writer: Mel Dinelli
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: Black & White, NTSC, Original recording remastered
Running Time: 83 minutes
Release Date: 2000-07-11
Audience Rating: Unrated
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
VHS Movie Reviews of Spiral Staircase (1946)
Movie Review: Robert Siodmak: a master director, a legitimate inheritor of the German expressionism!
Summary: 5 Stars
With this film this great director formally captured the whole attention of a story once and thousand times told, but with such overpowering talent and mesmerizing camera's handle that really engages you.
The initial sequence nourished the imagination of a you8ng director by then, Alfred Hitchcock who paid his homage in the famous sequence of murder of the detective in Norman Bates' house in "Psycho" . On the other hand Dorothy Mac Guire gives the most powerful performance of her career as the mute woman product of a terrible trauma who suffered since she was a child. "Wait for the darkness" and "Dressed to kill" were besides two others films that were visibly influenced for this movie.
All the pieces of this attractive thriller are here. Missing clues of a smart puzzle that we have to solve before the end. Fabulous performances of all the cast makes one applauds this potent and absorbing thriller which paved the way for many other filmmakers of the recent future.
Absolutely recommended for the audiences in general but specially for the young apprentices of this difficult craft. The mirror as creator of illusions, the staircase as the mysterious gate where everything could happen and the employment of the basement as a metaphor of the subconscious are clearly reflected and portrayed.
George Brent is terrific too as the affable and kind manners gentleman.
Summary of Spiral Staircase (1946)
An unusual suspense film, The Spiral Staircase tells the story of a mute servant girl threatened by a murderer who has a penchant for killing the handicapped. Ethel Barrymore, Elsa Lanchester, and George Brent co-star, while Dorothy McGuire expertly captures the dilemma of the mute Helen Capel. Capel, who has not been able to speak since childhood, must somehow call for help before becoming the killer's next victim. McGuire's performance carries the film far past any B-movie qualities in the plot, and the last line is one of the most memorable in film history. Silent movie buffs will especially enjoy the opening scene, which takes place at a turn-of-the-century movie parlor. --Mark SavaryHorror VHS Video
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