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The Spiral Staircase Movie Review

The Spiral Staircase Review

"The Spiral Staircase" Overview

*** stars

Rating: PG
1946


Cast and Crew

Director : Robert Siodmak
Producer : 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.



Review by

Christopher Null


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