For the Love of Film Noir :: Don’t Kill the Thrill … No One Seated Last Five Minutes of the Picture (March, 1946)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Poster campaign for The Spiral Staircase at the Archive.

 

This post is part of my rehash and continuation of the For the Love of Film Noir Blogathon originally held back in February of 2011. Thus and so, we will be heading down the rain-soaked streets and neon-drenched back alleys of Noirville again for the entire month of March. And along with all the old material migrating over from the old site, we’ll also be scattering around a lot of new stuff as well. Also of note, we’ll be posting them in chronological order to show how the genre evolved and progressed from the 1940′s through the late ’50s. And as an added bonus, I’ll be posting some vintage adverts to stuff I’ve always associated with the genre — cigarettes, booze and fashionable ladies.

The Spiral Staircase (1945) Dore Schary Productions :: RKO Radio Pictures / P: Dore Schary / D: Robert Siodmak / W: Mel Dinelli, Ethel Lina White (novel) / C: Nicholas Musuraca / E: Harry Gerstad, Harry Marker / M: Roy Webb / S: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith, Rhonda Fleming, Gordon Oliver, Elsa Lanchester