The Spiral Staircase | |
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Directed by | Peter Collinson |
Produced by | Josef Shaftel |
Written by | Ethel Lina White (novel) Mel Dinelli (writer) |
Starring |
Jacqueline Bisset Michael Sarrazin John Phillip Law |
Music by | David Lindup |
Cinematography | Ken Hodges |
Edited by | Raymond Poulton |
Production
company |
Raven Films
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release date
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1975 |
Running time
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86 min |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
The Spiral Staircase is a 1975 British horror mystery thriller film directed by Peter Collinson, starring Jacqueline Bisset and Christopher Plummer. It is a remake of the 1945 film of the same name.
Helen Mallory is a beautiful young woman who has been unable to speak a word since seeing her husband and daughter die in a fire. She visits the home of her elderly, invalid grandmother, and meet her uncle, Joe Sherman, a respected psychiatrist, but the visit turns into a nightmare as she encounters his brash brother Steven, a pretentious Southern belle named Blanche, and a number of other mysterious characters in a house where everyone's life seems to be in grave danger.