The Dark Stairway
1938 film by Arthur B. Woods
- January 1938 (1938-01)
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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
- The Dark Stairway at IMDb
- The Dark Stairway at BFI Film & TV Database
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Films directed by Arthur B. Woods
- Timbuctoo (1933)
- On Secret Service (1933)
- Radio Parade of 1935 (1934)
- Give Her a Ring (1934)
- Music Hath Charms (1935)
- Drake of England (1935)
- Once in a Million (1936)
- Rhythm in the Air (1936)
- Where's Sally? (1936)
- Irish for Luck (1936)
- Mayfair Melody (1937)
- The Windmill (1937)
- The Compulsory Wife (1937)
- Don't Get Me Wrong (1937)
- You Live and Learn (1937)
- The Singing Cop (1938)
- The Dark Stairway (1938)
- Mr. Satan (1938)
- Thistledown (1938)
- Glamour Girl (1938)
- The Return of Carol Deane (1938)
- Dangerous Medicine (1938)
- They Drive by Night (1938)
- Q Planes (1939)
- The Nursemaid Who Disappeared (1939)
- Confidential Lady (1939)
- Busman's Honeymoon (1940)
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