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In a film titled for one of these places, music is heard from a silent film screening below as the camera zooms in on an eye peering through dresses in a closet. An invalid dowager keeps a pistol by her bed in a film titled for one of these places that is set in a Vermont mansion on the night of a thunderstorm. A strangler stalks a mute nursemaid in that proto-slasher film by Robert Siodmak titled for one of these places. One of these places is back projected in a shot in which blood streams down the face of Martin (*) Balsam. Cary Grant traverses one of these places for an improbably long time while carrying Ingrid Bergman in the climax of Notorious. For 10 points, an overhead shot in Psycho shows a private eye falling down what sort of place? ■END■
ANSWER: staircase [accept The Spiral Staircase] (More steps are taken down the staircase in Notorious than actually exist.)
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