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The Spiral staircase

A terrifying melodrama about a mute servant girl in a gloomy house who is threatened by a mysterious killer.

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  • "A terrifying melodrama about a mute servant girl in a gloomy house who is threatened by a mysterious killer."@en
  • "A terrifying melodrama about a mute servant girl in a gloomy house who is threatened by a mysterious killer."
  • "A young woman who cannot speak is stalked by a repeat killer at her uncle's mansion."@en
  • "A terrifying melodrama about a mute servant girl in a gloomy house in the early 20th century who is threatened by a mysterious killer."
  • "A mute servant girl in a gloomy house is threatened by a mysterious killer."@en
  • "A speech-impaired woman is the suspected next victim of a serial killer targeting disabled women."@en
  • "Helen Capel, a sweet girl who hasn't spoken a word since a childhood shock, works as a servant to ailing Mrs. Warren, who presides from her sick bed over a strange New England household. Helen's best friend is the family doctor, Dr. Perry, who has fallen in love with her. Small town life seems quite normal until everyone is suddenly alarmed by a series of bizarre murders."@en
  • "A small town in 1906 is terrorized by a psychopathic killer of deformed girls. A mute servant girl in a gloomy household is endangered by this mysterious murderer in the midst of a terrifying thunder storm."@en
  • "Beautiful young mute Helen is a domestic worker for old ailing Mrs. Warren. Mrs. Warren's two sons, Albert (a professor) and womanizing impudent Steven, also live in the Warren mansion. Mrs. Warren becomes concerned for Helen's safety when a rash of murders involving 'women with afflictions' hits the neighborhood. She implores her physician, Dr. Parry, to take Helen away for her own safety. When another murder occurs inside the Warren mansion, it becomes obvious that Helen is in danger."
  • "Stars Dorothy McGuire as a mute girl working in a strange house haunted by a psychotic killer."@en
  • "A small town in 1906 New England is terrorized by a psychopathic killer of deformed girls [c.f. Halliwell's]."@en
  • "A gothic melodrama set in a New England town in 1906 where a psychopathic killer is murdering young women he sees as "defectives". His next victim is to be Helen, a mute. Most of the action takes place in a mansion on the same night so preserving the classical unities. The intention of Siodmak and Dinelli was to create "a sort of surrealist film which put the audience into a trance." Dorothy McGuire's playing as Helen was conceived as "a sort of ballet recovering some of the elements of silent cinema". The mansion, a place of darkness and shadows, is a setting for a theatrically structured screenplay weaving together the the interactions and tensions between the eight occupants and two visitors with a pairing of characters and repetition of events characteristic of gothic."@en
  • "Thriller in which a young mute woman who works in a New England mansion as a domestic is terrorised by a maniac who is killing off people with disabilities. After being warned of the danger to her personal safety, she makes plans to leave the dark old house, but it is too late - the maniac is in the house, and she is his prey."@en

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  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Mystery"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Adaptation"
  • "Fiction films"
  • "fiction d'horreur (fiction)"
  • "Detective and mystery films"
  • "Film noir"@en
  • "Suspense films"@en
  • "Video recordings"@en
  • "Film adaptations"@en
  • "Film adaptations"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Drama"
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Thriller"
  • "Thrillers (Motion pictures)"@en
  • "Thrillers (Motion pictures)"
  • "Features"@en

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  • "The Spiral staircase"
  • "The Spiral staircase"@en
  • "The spiral staircase"
  • "The spiral staircase"@en
  • "Spiral staircase"@en
  • "Spiral staircase (Film)"
  • "Spiral staircase (Motion picture : 1946)"@en

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