Country: UK
Year: 1963
Duration: 112'
The house is ninety years old and it has a bad reputation: too many violent deaths have marked its history, its architecture is too extravagant. Not one straight wall, not one door set square, as the paranormal expert points out to the two clairvoyant assistants who assist him in his research. Based on the novel The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson, Wise directs a chilling movie, with its sounds, hisses, blows, distorted perspectives. The house envelopes its inhabitants and generates ghosts.
Biography
film director
Robert Wise
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
The Curse of the Cat People (Il giardino delle streghe, 1944), The Body Snatcher (La jena - L’uomo di mezzanotte, 1945), The Set-Up (Stasera ho vinto anch’io, 1949), The Day the Earth Stood Still (Ultimatum alla terra, 1951), Somebody Up There Likes Me (Lassù qualcuno mi ama, 1956), West Side Story (id., 1961), The Haunting (Gli invasati, 1963), The Sound of Music (Tutti insieme appassionatamente, 1965), Star Trek - The Motion Picture (Star Trek, 1979).
Cast
& Credits
robert wise
THE HAUNTING
Regno Unito/UK, 1963, 35mm, 112’, bn/bw
regia, produttore/director, producer
Robert Wise
soggetto/story
dal romanzo L’incubo di Hill House di/from the novel The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Nelson Gidding
fotografia/cinematography
Davis Boulton
montaggio/film editing
Ernest Walter
scenografia/production design
Elliott Scott
musica/music
Humphrey Searle
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Julie Harris (Eleanor Vance), Claire Bloom (Theodora), Richard Johnson (John Markway), Russ Tamblyn (Luke Sannerson)
produzione/production
Argyle Enterprises, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer