Wicked, Wicked

The script for the film was unusual. It was typed sideways on legal-sized paper, with each side of the page corresponding to what happens on each side of the split-screen. Writer Richard L. Bare had trouble finding a typewriter with a wide enough carriage to accommodate the longer paper.

As Delores Hamilton looks around the hotel lobby, her head moves slightly on the right side of the split-screen but doesn't on the left.

Warner Archive release makes several crude cuts for violence, causing jump cuts and a skipping soundtrack. -The first attack on a hotel guest is shorter. -The scene of a severed arm falling from a room service cart is removed; we only see a hand begin to slide out. -When the killer operates a guillotine, the Archive version cuts directly from the descending blade to the aftermath - there isn't even an impact sound! -The scene of a head falling off the jostled body of a victim has been removed. -A body impaled on a spiked fence been reduced from a zoom-closeup and a wide shot to about 10 frames of the wide shot.

Featured in 42nd Street Forever, Volume 1 (2005)