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...Spiral Staircase (RKO-Radio), a murder mystery, knowingly paced by Director Robert Siodmak and shrewdly acted by an expert cast, including Ethel Barrymore, is choice, eerie entertainment...
Uncle Harry (Universal) is a thriller, produced by Alfred Hitchcock's onetime secretary, Joan Harrison, whose murder thriller Phantom Lady (TIME, Feb. 24, 1944) established her as one of Hollywood's talented producers. Her second offering, a Broadway play adaptation, is again directed by able Robert Siodmak, and again features a vivid performance by Ella Raines. Uncle Harry is better done than its predecessor, more human, subtler, more exciting...
...Robert Siodmak sold it to her- as an artist's duty toward a good piece of work, likeable or not. When she finally got into the part she fell in love with it. She feel so hard that the Director Siodmak, whose worries about Hayes Office approval must have been a little like a man wondering how Queen Victoria would take to an off color joke, had to tone down her performance. But despite all precautions, Miss Fitzgerald's salvation from limbo gleams handsomely through the Hays...
...picture is directed to the last gasp and shudder by Robert Siodmak (Christmas Holiday, Phantom Lady), who was born in Memphis, Tenn. but developed his talent for terror in the great studios of pre-Hitler Germany. Notably frightening scene: suspicious Inspector Ridges re-enacting the probable method of murder for the appalled widower while the camera, taking possession of Laughton's brain, flicks from bit to bit of the scene of the crime, turning a dark wardrobe, a torn stair-carpet, into so many kicks in the emotional midriff...