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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 Dark Stairway
Directed by	Arthur B. Woods
Written by	Basil Dillon Brock Williams. Novel: From What Dark Stairway by Mignon G. Eberhart
Produced by	Irving Asher
Starring	Hugh Williams Chili Bouchier
Cinematography	Robert LaPresle
Distributed by	Warner Brothers-First National Productions
Release date	January 1938 (1938-01)
Running time	73 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

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

External links

• The Dark Stairway at IMDb
• The Dark Stairway at BFI Film & TV Database

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