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The Dark Stairway
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Wikipedia article
'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.[http://www.britishpictures.com/articles/missing.htm Missing Believed Lost] British Pictures Article Archive.
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
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