Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining

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Paul Welsh

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Brian W. Cook

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Christiane Kubrick
Christiane Kubrick

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    The full oral history story of the making of Stanley Kubrick's horror masterpiece "The Shining".

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    2013-05-20

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