The Dark Stairway | |
Director: | Arthur B. Woods |
Producer: | Irving Asher |
Starring: | Hugh Williams Chili Bouchier |
Cinematography: | Robert LaPresle |
Distributor: | Warner Brothers-First National Productions |
Runtime: | 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]