The Shining (1980)

Director:

Stanley Kubrick

Writers:

Stephen King (novel)
Stanley Kubrick (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

23 May 1980 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

The tide of terror that swept America IS HERE[UK Poster]

Plot:

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

Plot Keywords:

Hotel | Caretaker | Ghost | Insanity | Colorado

Awards:

1 win & 5 nominations

Cast

Jack Nicholson	...	Jack Torrance
Shelley Duvall	...	Wendy Torrance
Danny Lloyd	...	Danny Torrance
Scatman Crothers	...	Dick Hallorann
Barry Nelson	...	Stuart Ullman
Philip Stone	...	Delbert Grady
Joe Turkel	...	Lloyd the Bartender
Anne Jackson	...	Doctor
Tony Burton	...	Larry Durkin
Lia Beldam	...	Young Woman in Bath
Billie Gibson	...	Old Woman in Bath
Barry Dennen	...	Bill Watson
David Baxt	...	Forest Ranger #1
Manning Redwood	...	Forest Ranger #2
Lisa Burns	...	Grady Twin Daughter
Louise Burns	...	Grady Twin Daughter
Robin Pappas	...	Nurse
Alison Coleridge	...	Secretary
Burnell Tucker	...	Policeman
Jana Shelden	...	Stewardess
Kate Phelps	...	Receptionist
Norman Gay	...	Injured Guest
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Vivian Kubrick	...	Smoking Guest on Ballroom Couch (uncredited)
Derek Lyons	...	Overlook Hotel Bellhop (uncredited)
Glenn Rinker	...	Himself / Television news anchor (uncredited)

Directed by
Stanley Kubrick

Writing credits
Stephen King		(novel)
Stanley Kubrick		(screenplay) &
Diane Johnson		(screenplay)

Produced by
Robert Fryer	....	associate producer: The Producer Circle Organization
Jan Harlan	....	executive producer
Mary Lea Johnson	....	associate producer: The Producer Circle Organization
Stanley Kubrick	....	producer
Martin Richards	....	associate producer: The Producer Circle Organization

Original Music by
Wendy Carlos
Rachel Elkind

Cinematography by
John Alcott		(photographed by)

Film Editing by
Ray Lovejoy

Casting by
James Liggat

Production Design by
Roy Walker

Art Direction by
Leslie Tomkins		(as Les Tomkins)

Costume Design by
Milena Canonero

Makeup Department
Barbara Daly	....	makeup artist
Leonard	....	hair stylist
Tom Smith	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Douglas Twiddy	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Brian W. Cook	....	assistant director (as Brian Cook)
Terry Needham	....	assistant director
Michael Stevenson	....	assistant director

Art Department
Barry Arnold	....	property man
Michael Boone	....	draughtsman
Karen Brookes	....	property buyer
Tessa Davies	....	set dresser
John Fenner	....	draughtsman
Len Furey	....	construction manager (as Len Fury)
Fred Gunning	....	head carpenter
Peter Hancock	....	property master
Michael Lamont	....	draughtsman
Philip McDonald	....	property man
Edward Rodrigo	....	property buyer
Del Smith	....	head painter
Peter Spencer	....	property man
Thomas Tarry	....	master plasterer (as Tom Tarry)
Bob Walker	....	decor artist (as Robert Walker)
Barry Wilson	....	drapes
Norman Dorme	....	additional art director (uncredited)
Vivian Kubrick	....	art department (uncredited)

Sound Department
Michael Charman	....	boom operator
Richard Daniel	....	sound recordist
Dino Di Campo	....	sound editor
Jack T. Knight	....	sound editor (as Jack Knight)
Bill Rowe	....	dubbing mixer
Ivan Sharrock	....	sound recordist
Ken Weston	....	boom operator
Rodney Glenn	....	assistant sound editor (uncredited)
Winston Ryder	....	sound editor (uncredited)
Lionel Strutt	....	foley mixer (uncredited)

Stunts
Jack Cooper	....	stunts (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Maurice Arnold	....	focus puller
Lou Bogue	....	gaffer
Garrett Brown	....	Steadicam operator
James Devis	....	camera operator
Dan Grimmel	....	video operator
Jim Kelly	....	head rigger
Martin Kenzie	....	assistant camera
Dennis Lewis	....	grip
Douglas Milsome	....	focus puller
Douglas Milsome	....	photographer: second unit
Kelvin Pike	....	camera operator
Peter Robinson	....	assistant camera
Danny Shelmerdine	....	assistant camera
Larry Smith	....	gaffer
Ray Andrew	....	Steadicam operator (uncredited)
Ted Churchill	....	Steadicam operator (uncredited)
Paul Kenward	....	assistant camera (uncredited)
Greg MacGillivray	....	helicopter photographer (uncredited)
Jimmy Worley	....	electrician (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Ron Beck	....	wardrobe supervisor
Ken Lawton	....	wardrobe supervisor
Veronica McAuliffe	....	wardrobe assistant (uncredited)

Editorial Department
Eddie Gordon	....	color grader
Steve Pickard	....	second assistant editor
Gill Smith	....	assistant editor
Gordon Stainforth	....	assistant editor
Adam Unger	....	second assistant editor
George Akers	....	assistant editor (uncredited)

Music Department
Brian Rust	....	music advisor: 20's music
John Wadley	....	music advisor: 20's music
Jorge Calandrelli	....	orchestrator (uncredited)

Other crew
Margaret Adams	....	secretary to producer
Marlene Butland	....	production secretary
Murray Close	....	location researcher
Emilio D'Alessandro	....	production assistant
Andros Epaminondas	....	assistant to producer
Giancarlo Giannini	....	voice dubbing: : Jack Nicholson
Jo Gregory	....	production accountant
Katharina Kubrick	....	location researcher
Tad Michel	....	hotel consultant
Pat Pennelegion	....	production secretary
June Randall	....	continuity
Jan Schlubach	....	location researcher
Leon Vitali	....	personal assistant to director
Paul Cadiou	....	assistant production accountant (uncredited)
Anthony Frewin	....	assistant: Stanley Kubrick (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Warner Bros. Pictures (presents)
• Hawk Films (made by)
• Peregrine
• Producers Circle (in association with) (as The Producer Circle Company)

Distributors

• Warner Bros. Pictures (1980) (USA) (theatrical)
• Warner Home Video (2000) (USA) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2001) (USA) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2007) (USA) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Warner Bros. (1980) (Italy) (theatrical)
• Warner-Columbia Film (1980) (France) (theatrical)
• Warner-Columbia Film (1980) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• Warner-Columbia Filmverleih (1980) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (1983) (USA) (TV) (broadcast premiere)
• Argentina Video Home (19??) (Argentina) (VHS)
• Most Video (????) (Russia) (DVD)
• RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (19??) (USA) (VHS)
• Warner Home Video (1986) (Japan) (VHS)
• Warner Home Video (2007) (Sweden) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2007) (Sweden) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Warner Home Video (1990) (USA) (VHS)
• Warner Home Video (1996) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
• Warner Home Vídeo (????) (Brazil) (DVD)
• Warner Home Vídeo (????) (Brazil) (VHS)

Other Companies

• American Motors Co.  with special acknowledgement to (as American Motor Company)
• Carl Zeiss  with special acknowledgement to
• Chapman Beauvais  titles
• Cherry Leisure  with special acknowledgement to
• Colorado Motion Picture and Television Advisory Commission  with special acknowledgement to (as State of Colorado Motion Picture Commission)
• Continental Airlines  with special acknowledgement to
• Dolby Laboratories  sound post-production
• Harrods of London  with special acknowledgement to
• JVC  with special acknowledgement to
• KBTV  with special acknowledgement to
• KHOW  with special acknowledgement to
• MacGillivray Freeman Films  helicopter photography
• MacGillivray Freeman Films  second unit photography
• Music Hire Group  with special acknowledgement to
• National Screen Service  titles
• National Vendors  with special acknowledgement to
• Norank Engineering Ltd.  engineering
• Post Logic Studios  digital film mastering
• Timberline Lodge  with special acknowledgement to
• WPLG  with special acknowledgement to

Also Known As:

Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining'

Runtime:

142 min (cut) | 119 min (cut) (European version) | 146 min (original version)

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

New Zealand:R16 | Spain:13 | Italy:VM14 (re-rating) | Italy:VM18 (original rating) | Finland:K-15 (DVD rating) | Iceland:16 | Portugal:M/16 | Canada:14A (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) (re-rating) (2007) | Canada:R (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) (original rating) | Brazil:14 | Ireland:15 (re-rating) (2007) | UK:15 (re-rating) (2007) | Denmark:15 (DVD rating) | Denmark:16 (video rating) | Malaysia:U | USA:R (Rated R for intense sequences of violence and terror, language, and graphic nudity) | UK:18 (video rating) (1986) | Argentina:18 | Australia:MA (DVD rating) | Australia:M | Canada:18+ (Québec) | Denmark:15 | Finland:K-18 | France:-12 | Hong Kong:III | Ireland:18 | Netherlands:16 | Norway:18 | Singapore:M18 | South Korea:(Banned) (original rating) | South Korea:18 (DVD rating) (2004) (uncut) | UK:X (original rating) | West Germany:16 | Philippines:X | Japan:R-15 | USA:R | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Colorado, USA

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

The scrapbook that Jack finds in the novel makes a brief appearance next to his typewriter in the scene when Jack tells Wendy never to bother him while he's working.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Jack talks with Lloyd the bartender for the first time, you can see 2 errors: the pattern of the bar is lighted glass, wood and then lighted glass again. you can see that at the beginning, Jack sits and the wood part is right in the center of his body, one moment later it's near his left hand, and few moments later it's far away from his left hand.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Jack Torrance: Hi, I've got an appointment with Mr. Ullman. My name is Jack Torrance.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (2004) (VG)

Soundtrack:

Rocky Mountains

Jack Torrance Meets David Bowman

What can I say about the scariest movie I have ever seen that has not already been said by others more articulate than yours truly? Do not view this film expecting to see a screen version of the Stephen King novel. Rather, this is a Stanley Kubrick film, and to fully appreciate it one should judge it within the context of Kubrick's entire body of work as a serious filmmaker. Thematically, THE SHINING relates most closely to 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, though flourishes of PATHS OF GLORY, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and BARRY LYNDON do manage to figure prominently in the film's overall technique.

In a nutshell (no pun intended), Jack Nicholson and Shelly Duvall co-star with Oregon's Timberline Lodge - enlisted to portray the exterior of the Overlook Hotel - in a story that appears on the surface to be about ghosts and insanity, but deals with issues of child abuse, immortality and duality.

What the film might lack initially in terms of coherence is more than made up for in technique. Garrett Brown (the male voice in those old Molson Golden commercials), inventor of the Steadicam, chases young Danny Lloyd through hotel corridors and an amazing snow maze, providing magic-carpet-ride fluidity to scenes that ten years earlier would have been impossible to accomplish. If the film starts off too slow, remember who the director is. This man likes to take his time, and the results are well worth it: incredible aerial shots of the Overlook Hotel; horrific Diane Arbus-inspired twins staring directly at us; portentous room 237 and its treasure trove of terrible secrets; elevators that gush rivers of blood in slow-motion; Jack Torrance's immortality found via the hotel (akin to David Bowman's journey through the Space Gate); and some of the best use of pre-existing music ever assembled for a motion picture.

It would take a book to examine and defend the film's strong points and drawbacks. If you've never seen it, you owe it to yourself to watch it alone with the lights off, with no interruptions, and make sure that it's raining. This is a cinematic experience that changed my life at the age of 14. Makes a great double feature with Robert Wise's 1963 thriller THE HAUNTING.