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The Spiral Staircase

film by Siodmak [1945]
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  • Robert Siodmak

    The gothic thriller The Spiral Staircase (1945) starred Dorothy McGuire as a woman hunted by a serial killer. Arguably better was The Killers (1946), which took the original Ernest Hemingway short story as its opening point and developed it in an elaborate series of flashbacks. The film noir…

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    The gothic thriller The Spiral Staircase (1945) starred Dorothy McGuire as a woman hunted by a serial killer. Arguably better was The Killers (1946), which took the original Ernest Hemingway short story as its opening point and developed it in an elaborate series of flashbacks. The film noir…

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