The Spiral Staircase (1946)




Dorothy McGuire, George Brent - The Spiral Staircase

Dorothy McGuire - The Spiral Staircase

Ethel Barrymore - The Spiral Staircase




In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions"; one night during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.


Film programs

Illustrierter Film-Kurier Berlin nr. 37a
Das neue Filmprogramm nr. 4321

Books with substantial mentioning of The Spiral Staircase

Jürgen Müller
Movies of the 40s
Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, 2005

John Dileo
100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember - but probably don't
New York, 2002

Deborah Lazaroff Alpi
Robert Siodmak, A Biography, with Critical Analyses of His Film Noirs and a Filmography of All His Works
Jefferson, North Carolina and London, 1998

Amy Lawrence
Echo and Narcissus, Women's Voices in Classical Hollywood Cinema
Berkeley - Los Angeles - Oxford, 1991

Tony Thomas
The Films of the Forties
Secaucus, NJ, 1980

Books with an entry on The Spiral Staircase

Michael F. Keaney
Film Noir Guide, 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2003