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The Shining (1980)
Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1978-1979
Running Times: 114m (Australia/UK - theatrical)/119m/146m
(UK - television; USA - theatrical/video/laserdisc)
Length:
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: colour
Ratio: 1.37:1 (Kubrick's preferred
ratio)/1.33:1 (DVD ratio)/1.85:1 (most theatrical screenings)
Sound: mono
DIRECTION
Director: Stanley Kubrick
CREW
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Hawk Films/Peregrine Film/The Producers Circle/Warner
Brothers
Executive Producers: Jan Harlan
Producer: Stanley Kubrick
Production Manager: Douglas Twiddy
SCRIPT
Script: Stanley Kubrick,
Diane Johnson
Novel: Stephen King
DIRECTION
Assistant Directors: Brian Cook, Terry Needham, Michael Stevenson
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: John Alcott
2nd Unit Photography: Douglas Milsome, MacGillivray-Freeman Films
Steadicam Operators: Garrett Brown, Ray Andrew, Ted Churchill
Helicopter Photography: Greg MacGillivray, Jim Freeman, MacGillivray-Freeman
Films
Camera Operators: Kelvin Pike, James Devis
Focus Puller: Douglas Milsome
Focus Assistant: Maurice Arnold
Camera Assistants: Peter Robinson, Martin Kenzie, Danny Shelmerdine,
Paul Kenward
Grips: Dennis Lewis
Gaffers: Lou Bogue,
Larry Smith
Video Operator: Dan Grimmel
Head Rigger: Jim Kelly
Colour Grading: Eddie Gordon
EDITING
Editor: Ray Lovejoy
Assistant Editors: Gill Smith, Gordon Stainforth
2nd Assistant Editors: Adam Unger, Steve Pickard
MUSIC
Music: Béla Bartók (from Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta),
Hector Berlioz, Wendy Carlos, Krysztof Penderecki, György Ligeti, Rachel
Elkind, Henry Hall (?)
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan (Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion
and Celesta)
Songs Peformed By: Al Bowlly (Midnight, the Stars and You; It's All
Forgotten Now - uncredited archive recording)
20s Music Advisor: Brian Rust, John Wadley
SOUND
Sound Recordist: Ivan Sharrock, Richard Daniel
Boom Operators: Ken Weston, Michael Charman
Dubbing Mixers: Bill Rowe, Ray Merrin
Sound Editors: Wyn Ryder, Dino Di Campo, Jack Knight
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Tom Smith, Barbara Daly
Hair: Leonard
Costume Designer: Milena Canonero
Wardrobe Supervisors: Ken Lawton, Ron Beck
Wardrobe Assistant: Ian Hickinbottom (uncredited), Veronica McAuliffe
(uncredited)
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Alan Whibley, Les Hillman, Dick Parker
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Roy Walker
Art Director: Les Tomkins
Additional Art Director: Norman Dorme (uncredited)
Decor Artist: Robert Walker
Set Dresser: Tessa Davies
Draughtsmen: John Fenner, Michael Lamont, Michael Boone
Prop Master: Peter Hancock
Propman: Barry Arnold, Philip McDonald, Peter Spencer
Prop Buyer: Edward Rodrigo, Karen Brookes
Construction Manager: Len Fury
Drapes: Barry Wilson
Master Plasterer: Tom Tarry
Head Carpenter: Fred Gunning
Head Painter: Del Smith
Art Department: Vivian Kubrick (uncredited)
Title Designer: Chapman Beauvais
Titles: National Screen Service
OTHER CREW
Continuity: June Randall
Production Accountant: Jo Gregory
Assistant Production Accountant: Paul Cadiou (uncredited)
Production Assistants: Emilio D'Alessandro, Ray Andrews (uncredited)
Assistant to Producer: Andros Epaminondas
Assistant to Stanley Kubrick: Anthony Frewin
Personal Assistant to Director: Leon Vitali
Production Secretaries: Pat Pennelegion, Marlene Butland, Margaret Adams
PA to Director: Leon Vitali
Hotel Consultant: Tad Michel
LOCATIONS
Locations: Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, USA; Colorado, USA; Glacier
National Park, Montana, USA; London, England, UK; Timberline, Oregon,
USA; Timberline Lodge, Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon, USA; Yosemite
National Park, California, USA
Studios: EMI-Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, England, UK; Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire,
England, UK
Location Researchers: Jan Schlubach, Katharina Kubrick, Murray Close
CASTING
Casting: James Liggat
CAST
Jack Nicholson (Jack Torrance)
Shelley Duvall (Wendy Torrance)
Danny Lloyd (Danny Torrance)
Scatman Crothers (Hallorann)
Barry Nelson (Ullman)
Philip Stone (Grady)
Joe Turkel (Lloyd)
Anne Jackson (doctor)
Tony Burton (Larry Durkin)
Lia Beldam (young woman in bathtub)
Billie Gibson (old woman in bathtub)
Lisa Burns, Louise Burns (Grady girls)
Norman Gay (injured guest)
Barry Dennen (Bill Watson)
David Baxt (forest ranger 1)
Manning Redwood (forest ranger 2)
Robin Pappas (nurse)
Alison Coleridge (Susie the secretary)
Burnell Tucker (policeman)
Jana Sheldon (stewardess)
Kate Phelps (receptionist)
Norman Gay (injured guest)
PLOT SUMMARY
Novelist Jack Torrance is in search of inspiration. He takes his wife
Wendy and young son Danny to the bleak and remote Overlook hotel where
they are to be caretakers for the long winter months. But Danny has
a gift, "the shining" which allows him to communicate telepathically
with the ghosts that haunt to Overlook. His father, meanwhile, is being
driven insane by his own encounters with the haunting spirits and soon
decides that his family must die...
CAPSULE REVIEW
Much misunderstood at the time - mainly by Stephen King fans who were
appalled at the liberties Kubrick took with the novel - The Shining
has matured well and now looks like one of the horror genre crowning
achievements. It has a creepy atmosphere that even overcomes Nicholson's
over-enthusiastic performance and the final scenes in the wintry maze
are both terrifying and poignant. The twin ghost girls are magnificent
spooky and the hotel itself becomes an oppressive and sinister character
in its own right. Beautifully photographed and designed, for the most
part well acted and, of course, directed with the genius we've come
to expect from Kubrick.
AVAILABILITY
Argentina
Video Distributor: Argentina Video Home
Russia
DVD Distributor: Most Video
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Warner Brothers
Laserdisc Distributor: Warner Home Video (11079); Warner Home Video
(11079 A/B)
DVD Distributor: Warner Home Video (21156 - part of the New Stanley
Kubrick Collection; includes - The Making of The Shining, with commentary
by director Vivian Kubrick); Warner Home Video (29831)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Argentina
Rating: 18
Australia
Rating: MA (uncut version); M
Finland
Rating: K-18
Italy
Rating: VM14
Netherlands
Rating: 16
Norway
Rating: 18
Sweden
Rating: 15
UK
Rating: 18
USA
Rating: R
West Germany
Rating: 16
AWARDS
1981
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
Saturn Award: Best Supporting Actor (Scatman Crothers) - winner
Razzie Awards
Worst Actress (Shelley Duvall) - nominated
Worst Director (Stanley Kubrick) - nominated
TIMELINE
1978
May
Day Unknown: UK - production begins
1979
April
Day Unknown: UK - production ends
1980
May
23: USA - theatrical release
September
26: Finland, Norway - theatrical release
October
16: West Germany - theatrical release
17: Sweden - theatrical release
December
22: Italy - theatrical release
1989
December
6: UK - television broadcast (on Thames)
1991
September
25: USA - laserdisc release (Warner Home Video (11079 A/B))
December
20: UK - television broadcast (on LWT)
1992
November
24: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)
1993
January
Day Unknown: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Movies)
1996
June
22: UK - television broadcast (on C4)
1998
August
2: UK - television broadcast (on C4)
1999
June
29: USA - DVD release (Warner Home Video (29831))
August
27: Iceland - shown at the Reykjavik Film Festival
September
4: UK - television broadcast (on C4)
2001
May
12: USA - DVD release (Warner Home Video (21156 - part of the New Stanley
Kubrick Collection))
2002
January
14: Russia - DVD release (as part of the Stanley Kubrick DVD Collection)
March
7: USA - television broadcast (on OMAX)
2001
June
19: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Cinema)
July
8: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Cinema)
26: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Cinema)
August
16: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Cinema 2)
18: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Cinema 2)
October
31: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Cinema)
November
13: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Cinema 2)
December
24: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Cinema)
2002
January
16: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Cinema 2)
February
10: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Cinema 2)
April
15: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Cinema)
May
6: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Cinema 2)
June
22: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Cinema)
September
21: UK - television broadcast (on TCM)
31: UK - television broadcast (on TCM)
December
28: UK - television broadcast (on TCM)
2003
January
11: UK - television broadcast (on BBC2)
February
2: UK - television broadcast (on TCM)
April
18: UK - television broadcast (on TCM)
May
8: UK - shown at the National Film Theatre, London
23: UK - shown at the National Film Theatre, London
June
12: UK - television broadcast (on TCM)
October
4: UK - television broadcast (on TCM)
November
29: UK - television broadcast (on TCM)
December
31: UK - television broadcast (on TCM)
2004
February
7: UK - television broadcast (on TCM)
April
22: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Movies Cinema)
23: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Movies Cinema 2)
May
15: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Movies Cinema)
16: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Movies Cinema 2)
July
9: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Movies Cinema)
10: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Movies Cinema 2)
August
6: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Movies Cinema)
7: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Movies Cinema 2)
20: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Movies Cinema)
21: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Movies Cinema 2)
October
29: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Movies Cinema)
30: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Movies Cinema 2)
December
9: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Movies Cinema)
10: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Movies Cinema 2)
2005
January
9: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Movies Cinema)
10: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Movies Cinema 2)
March
12: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Movies Cinema)
13: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Movies Cinema 2)
May
22: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Movies Cinema)
23: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Movies Cinema 2)
November
4: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1 (except Northern Ireland))
5: UK - television broadcast (on BBC 1 Northern Ireland)
2006
May
13: UK - television broadcast (on TCM)
July
29: UK - television broadcast (on TCM)
August
18: UK - television broadcast (on TCM)
September
16: UK - television broadcast (on TCM)
23: UK - television broadcast (on BBC2)
October
27: UK - television broadcast (on TCM)
December
15: UK - television broadcast (on TCM)
2007
March
16: UK - television broadcast (on TCM)
July
17: UK - television broadcast (on ITV4)
October
31: UK - television broadcast (on ITV4)
November
1: UK - television broadcast (on ITV4)
3: UK - television broadcast (on Living)
24: UK - television broadcast (on Living)
2008
January
1: UK - television broadcast (on Living)
July
25: UK - television broadcast (on More4 and More4+1)
2009
February
6: UK - television broadcast (on TCM)
16: UK - television broadcast (on TCM)
27: UK - television broadcast (on TCM)
March
7: UK - television broadcast (on TCM)
8: UK - television broadcast (on TCM)
POSTER TAGS
A Masterpiece Of Modern Horror
All work and no play make Jack a dull boy...
Stanley Kubrick's epic nightmare of horror
The tide of terror that swept America IS HERE (UK Poster)
The Horror is driving him crazy
He Came As The Caretaker, But This Hotel Had Its Own Guardians
- Who'd Been There A Long Time
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Enfant lumičre, L' - French Canadian
title
Lsnienie - Polish title
Ragyogás - Hungarian title
Resplandor, El - Argentine/Spanish
title
Shining - French/German/Hungarian/Italian
title
Shining, The - hohto - Finnish title
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining - advertising
title
LINKS
REMAKE
Shining, The (1997)
INCLUDES FOOTAGE FROM
Road Runner Show, The (1966)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
AFI's 100 Years, 100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies (2001)
Here's Looking at You, Warner Bros (1991)
Making The Shining (1980)
Movie Mistakes
Uncovered Uncut... (2002)
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)
Terror in the Aisles
(1984)
SEE ALSO
Simpsons, The: Treehouse of Horror V (1994)
REFERENCES
PERIODICALS
American Cinematographer August 1980
pp.780-789, 827-845 (USA)
illustrated article
American Film June 1980 pp.49-52 (USA)
production report
Cinefantastique Autumn 1978 p.74 (USA)
article
Cinefantastique Winter 1978 p.74 (USA)
article
Cinefantastique Autumn 1980 p.38 (USA)
article
L'Ecran Fantastique no.15 (1980) pp.56-57
(France)
review
Film Comment July/August 1980 pp.28-32
(USA)
review
Filme no.6 (1980) pp.50 - 56
article
Films In Review August/September 1980
pp.438-439 (UK)
review (by Jeffrey Wells)
Halls of Horror no.27 p.26 (UK)
note
Hollywood Reporter 23 May 1980 p.2 (USA)
review
The Listener 9 October 1980 pp.484-485
(UK)
review
Motion Picture Product Digest 11 June
1980 p.3 (USA)
credits, review
The Movie p.1920 (UK)
credits, review
Positif no.234 (September 1980) pp.15-18
(France)
article
Screen International 13 May 1978 p.14
(UK)
credits
Screen International 18 October 1980
p.20 (UK)
review
Starburst no.27 (1980) pp.24-27 (UK)
illustrated preview (by Phil Edwards)
Time Out 2 March 1979 p.33 (UK)
review
TV Filmes October 1997 p.64 (Portugal)
review (by Manuel Pereira)
Variety 28 May 1980 p.14 (USA)
review (by Har)
NEWSPAPERS
Diário de Notícias 26 May 1999 p.55 (Portugal)
review
BOOKS
Horror and Science Fiction Films Volume II p.351
credits
KEYWORDS
alcoholism, axe murders, axes, bars, children, elevators, ESP, ghosts,
helicopters, hotels, insanity, mazes, psychics, snow, the paranormal,
twins, writers
Last Updated:
23 May, 2009
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