Video: 'The Shining' trailer

(Friday, May 23, 1980, noon EDT) — Jack Torrance becomes winter caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado, hoping to cure his writer’s block in The Shining, an psychological horror film that opened today at Moss’ Criterion Theatre in New York City.

Video: 'The Shining (1980) - Movie' (7 videos)

Directed by Stanley Kubrick, the film starred Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers and Danny Lloyd.