Some Must Watch<\/em> (1933). The Gothic\u00a0plot revolves around a young\u00a0woman who\u00a0has been\u00a0recently employed at a large house. This occurs\u00a0against the backdrop of a series of murders of local\u00a0women.\u00a0\u00a0Siodmak’s film\u00a0 increases the vulnerability of\u00a0these victims as they are all women with disabilities. Coincidentally our heroine\u00a0 Helen (Dorothy McGuire) is a mute, unable, even, to scream in terror…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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All are very welcome to join us for the\u00a0third of this term\u2019s Screening and Discussion sessions, which will take place on\u00a0Monday the\u00a030th of November, 4.30-7pm, in Jarman 7. We will be showing The Spiral Staircase (1945,Robert Siodmak, 83 mins) The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50575],"tags":[100203,100204,5083,92777,100154,100205,92785],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1464,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions\/1464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>The film is based on Ethel Lina White’s popular novel Some Must Watch<\/em> (1933). The Gothic\u00a0plot revolves around a young\u00a0woman who\u00a0has been\u00a0recently employed at a large house. This occurs\u00a0against the backdrop of a series of murders of local\u00a0women.\u00a0\u00a0Siodmak’s film\u00a0 increases the vulnerability of\u00a0these victims as they are all women with disabilities. Coincidentally our heroine\u00a0 Helen (Dorothy McGuire) is a mute, unable, even, to scream in terror…<\/p>\n