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Robert Siodmak’s “The Spiral Staircase” is one of my all-time current thrillers. It was adapted from the book “Some Must View” by the prolific Ethel Lina White. 2 of White’s books had been made into films by Alfred Hitchcock. “The Wheel Spins” became “The Lady Vanishes”, and “Before the Fact” became “Suspicion”. “The Spiral Staircase” deals with a attractive creepy premise: An unknown killer has been murdering women with “afflictions”. (One victim was disfigured, another feeble-minded, another lame) . Helen, a young tranquil servant girl working in a unlit ancient mansion, is the killer’s next intended victim. The killer is in the house with her, but who is it? Siodmak, a master of film noir, holds your attention for approximately 85 minutes, and never lets go. All of the classic elements are here: Former dusky house, thunderstorm, chiaroscuro lighting, eerie musical secure, shiny performances. The sets, by the scheme, are leftovers from Orson Welles’ “The Sparkling Ambersons”, the music accept by Roy Webb, who had quiet other goose-pimplers such as “The Cat People”, “I Walked With a Zombie”, “The Body Snatcher” and Hitchcock’s “Noted”. Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman on the Theremin is featured on this come by, providing added goosebumps. And the cast! Beautiful Dorothy McGuire is pleasurable as the endangered Helen, in a house peopled by the likes of the very large Ethel Barrymore, the wooden George Brent, pleasant character actors Elsa Lanchester, Rhys Williams and Sara Allgood, dazzling Kent Smith and Gordon Oliver, and splendid Rhonda Fleming. Ellen Corby is in the film too, in a bit part-watch for her! Robert Siodmak was an gracious “B” movie director, having made masterpieces on relatively cramped budgets. His other films include “The Killers”, “Phantom Lady”, “Son of Dracula”, the camp classic “Cobra Woman”, “Criss Imperfect”, and the Burt Lancaster romp “The Crimson Pirate”. So, in this age of over-inflated budgets, it’s a wonder and honor to gawk these well-made films from an era of almost non-existent special effects, modest budgets, and substantial actors. The narrate and sound quality on this DVD are excellent-very shipshape and crisp, so you can really like the dismal Victorian sets and eerie musical gain. There are practically no extras on the disc-just the theatrical trailer, but who’s complaining? So, lock your doors and windows, because you never know who’s watching you, and maybe even examine under the bed, unprejudiced to be on the profitable side, and explore “The Spiral Staircase”-you will be thoroughly, enjoyably chilled!
One of the most creepy and effective thrillers from the immediate post war era. The movie is in many respects a precursor to new serial killer/stalker movies and aged dismay tactics that serene remain in spend more than 50 years later. The focus of the film is on a household where a cranky venerable grandmother is bedridden and waiting to die, being looked after by a calm nurse who is the serial killers positive next target as he clearly goes after victims with afflictions in his attempt to restore perfection and beauty to a spoiled world. The director manages to conjure up an effective feeling of dismay and claustrophobia – this is a long, long draw from William Castle’s amiable ghost frolic The House on Fearful Hill which played more like a farce than a thriller. The film is a dinky reminiscent of another classic serial killer outing made noteworthy later in England, Peeping Tom and was clearly draw ahead of its time when it came out in 1946. The cast headed by Dorothy McGuire and George Brent but gaze out especially for one of the screen’s immortal icons, Elsa Lanchester who will forever be remembered as The Bride of Frankenstein. The Spiral Staircase is a respectable thriller, may be a touch over wrought by today’s standards, but effective, tense and fairly creepy. Perhaps, along with M, the mountainous astronomical granddaddy of the fresh serial killer thriller. Far beneficial to the repugnant remake that was dished up in 1975.
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