May 3, 1971
Release Date

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The Glass Ceiling (1971)

Name: The Glass Ceiling
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1971-05-03

1h 32m

Running Time

May 3, 1971
Release Date

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Plot.

A housewife is frequently left alone by her husband in their apartment, as his business requires him to travel. The woman who lives upstairs is also minus her husband, but Sevilla begins to catch occasional lies and half-truths from her upstairs neighbor, which leads Sevilla to think that Shepard has murdered her husband. Sevilla can't quite keep her mouth shut about the matter, however, and despite the fact that her friends think her imagination is running wild, she does not really begin to suspect the danger until it is too late

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psychological thriller ·

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Details.

Release Date
May 3, 1971

Original Name
El techo de cristal

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 32m

Genres
Horror Mystery Thriller

Wiki.

The Glass Ceiling (Spanish:El techo de cristal) is a 1971 psychological thriller film, written and directed by Eloy de la Iglesia. It stars Carmen Sevilla, Dean Selmier and Patty Shepard.The plot follows a bored housewife who begins to suspect that her upstairs neighbor killed her invalid husband. Sevilla won a major award in her home country (the Cinema Writers Circle Award) for this performance.

The film is somewhat inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954) and the paranoia classic George Cukor's Gaslight (1944). The film was a commercial success.