The Spiral Staircase (Blu-ray)
Conflicts that freeze your emotions! Suspense that takes your breath!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 23 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: October 2, 2018
- Originally Released: 2018
- Label: KL Studio Classics
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:
Erected on expressionistic Gothic menace
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CinePassion
Complex thriller with rich style.
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Classic Film and Television
The film is likely to scare the daylights out of most of its audiences.
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New York Times
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A haunted house tale where the ghosts are all too human.
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From the Front Row
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
This dated old chestnut definitely wouldn't hold up as-is for today's audiences, but for fans of classic cinema it's well worth a look.
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Horror.com
...Siodmak's superb horror film broaches some very sinister themes...
Sight and Sound
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....