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The Dark Stairway is a British film of genre Drama directed by Arthur B. Woods with Hugh Williams

The Dark Stairway (1938)

The Dark Stairway
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Length 1h13
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Genres Drama,    Crime

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.

Actors

Hugh Williams

(Dr. Thurlow)Chili Bouchier

(Betty Trimmer)Garry Marsh

(Dr. Mortimer)James Stephenson

(Inspector Clarke)Reginald Purdell

(Askew)
And :
Lesley Brook
Glen Alyn
Elsa Buchanan
Syd Crossley
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