The Dark Stairway is a 1938 British crime film, directed byArthur B. Woods and starringHugh Williams,Chili Bouchier andGarry Marsh.

The film was aquota quickie production, based on the 1931 novelFrom This Dark Stairway byMignon 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 alost film.^[1]

• 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

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

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