The Dark Stairway

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.

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