The Spiral Staircase

“Conflicts that freeze your emotions! Suspense that takes your breath!”

Helen (Dorothy McGuire) has been mute since childhood, and all she wants is a safe place to work and a quiet life. She has found one as the servant to the bedridden Mrs. Warren (Ethel Barrymore) in a Vermont mansion. Robert Siodmak sets the film on a single stormy night, as a killer who goes after women with disabilities is somewhere in town, and Helen cannot call out for help.