The Dark Stairway

For the 1953 film, see The Dark Stairway (1953 film).
The Dark Stairway
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
Release dates
  • January 1938 (1938-01)
Running time
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

References

  1. Missing Believed Lost British Pictures Article Archive.


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