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Release year: 1962

Storyline

In 1936, a Dutch physician who treats leprosy patients in the jungles of Indonesia has a dangerous run-in with a local witch-doctor who uses black magic to kill his enemies.

Top credits

Directors

Robert Mulligan

Writers

Cast

Rock Hudson — Dr. Anton Drager
Burl Ives — Dr. Brits Jansen
Gena Rowlands — Els
Geoffrey Keen — Willem Wattereus

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Did you know

• The Spiral Road contains the origin for the opening of Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969). Rock Hudson wanders aimlessly through the jungle confused to his identity, while his beard grows long and his clothes wind up in tatters. Finally he comes to a clearing where there is a pool. He sees his reflection and exclaims, "It's..." But instead of an offstage voice saying Monty Python's Flying Circus, he just says, "It's... me!".

• final film of Sally Cleaves.

• The soundtrack release reveals that there is quite a bit of music written to scenes which no longer appear in the film, as much as 20 minutes of music. That might mean that when Jerry Goldsmith scored it, it may have been as long as 3 hours.