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Submit Your ReviewMPAA Rating: G | Year: 1963 | Running Time: 113 minutes
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$13.99HAUNTING (1963) / (DUB SUB)
One of the most highly regarded haunted house films ever produced, Robert Wise's The Haunting (based on Shirley Jackson's novel -The Haunting of Hill House) weaves the dark tale of a questionably sane young woman and a sinister house which holds a terrifying past. Invited to join anthropologist Dr. ...more
Between his phenomenally sunny musical successes West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965), director Robert Wise found time to make this brooding, low-key shocker, based on the novel -The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. The material seemed to free up Wise's baser talents: The off-kilter, black-and-white photography goes a long way in intensifying the production's minimal special effects, and the actors uniformly overplay their parts, giving the film a streamlined momentum ...more
- Julie Harris - Eleanor Vance
- Claire Bloom - Theodora
- Richard Johnson - Dr. John Markway
- Russ Tamblyn - Luke Sanderson
- Lois Maxwell - Grace Markway
- Ronald Adam - Eldridge Harper
- Diane Clare - Carrie Fredericks
- Amy Dalby - Abigail at 80
- Mavis Villiers - Landlady
- Susan Richards - Nurse
- Rosemary Dorken - Companion
- Paul Maxwell - Bud
- Verina Greenlaw - Dora
- Howard Lang - Hugh Crain
- Robert Wise - Director
- Robert Wise - Producer
- Nelson Gidding - Screenwriter
- Shirley Jackson - Book Author
- Denis Johnson - Associate Producer
- Maude Churchill - Costume Designer
- Mary Quant - Costume Designer
- David Tomblin - First Assistant Director
- Ernest Walter - Editor
- Humphrey Searle - Composer (Music Score)
- Humphrey Searle - Musical Direction/Supervision
- Tom Smith - Makeup
- Alan McCabe - Camera Operator
- Elliot Scott - Production Designer
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