The Spiral Staircase Movie Review
The Spiral Staircase Review
"The Spiral Staircase" Overview
Rating: PG
1946
Cast and Crew
Director : Robert SiodmakProducer : Dore Schary
Screenwiter : Mel Dinelli
Starring : Dorothy McGuire,George Brent,Ethel Barrymore,Kent Smith,Rhonda Fleming
Heralded as a noirish classic, The Spiral Staircase is terribly forced as a thriller. While the ubiquitous eye peeping through the wall (which belongs to a serial killer of "afflicted" women in the 1910s) is creepy, the bad guy can really only be one of two people in the pick. Dorothy McGuire does a fair job as the mute could-be-next victim, but overall the thrill of Spiral is largely gone.
Reviewer: Christopher Null
