The Dark Stairway
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Directed by | Arthur B. Woods |
Produced by | Irving Asher |
Written by | Basil Dillon Brock Williams Mignon G. Eberhart |
Starring | Hugh Williams Chili Bouchier |
Cinematography | Robert LaPresle |
Distributed by | Warner Brothers-First National Productions |
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73 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
The Dark Stairway is a 1938 British crime film, directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring Hugh Williams, Chili Bouchier and Garry Marsh.
The film was a quota quickie production, based on the 1931 novel From This Dark Stairway by Mignon G. Eberhart. In the film, professional jealousy and rivalry erupts in a hospital over the discovery of a revolutionary new formula for anaesthetic, leading to murder. The Dark Stairway is now classed as a lost film.[1]
Cast
- Hugh Williams as Dr. Thurlow
- Chili Bouchier as Betty Trimmer
- Garry Marsh as Dr. Mortimer
- Reginald Purdell as Askew
- Lesley Brook as Mary Cresswell
- Aubrey Pollock as Dr. Cresswell
- Glen Alyn as Isabel Simmonds
- John Carol as Merridew
- Robert Rendel as Dr. Fletcher
References
- ↑ Missing Believed Lost British Pictures Article Archive.
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). The Dark Stairway at IMDb
- The Dark Stairway at BFI Film & TV Database
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