The Spiral Staircase

The tempestuous secretary Blanche (Rhonda Fleming) informs the mute Helen (Dorothy McGuire) of her plans, dodges the tippling Mrs. Oates (Elsa Lanchester) then runs into trouble in The Spiral Staircase, 1946.

Dr. Parry's (Kent Smith) passionate departure sends mute servant Helen (Dorothy McGuire) into a tortured romantic fantasy, upon which Professor Warren (George Brent) intrudes, in Robert Siodmak's The Spiral Staircase, 1946.

The invalid matriarch of the haunted-or-threatened New England mansion Mrs. Warren (Ethel Barrymore) isn't altogether deluded when she advises her mute servant Helen (Dorothy McGuire) to flee, in Robert Siodmak's The Spiral Staircase, 1946.

The mute servant Helen (Dorothy McGuire) has no idea she's being watched, and we don't know by whom, before the bossy maid Mrs. Oates (Elsa Lanchester) interrupts in Robert Siodmak's The Spiral Staircase, 1946.

Not too concerned about the murderer at large in their New England town, Dr. Parry (Kent Smith) and his new patient, lovely but mute Helen (Dorothy McGuire), are waylaid by youngster Freddy (Dickie Tyler) with an emergency, in Robert Siodmak's The Spiral Staircase, 1946.