The Dark Stairway (1953 film)

The Dark Stairway
Directed by Ken Hughes
Produced by Alec C. Snowden
executive
Nat Cohen
Stuart Levy
Written by Ken Hughes
Starring Russell Napier
Vincent Ball
Narrated by Edgar Lustgarten
Cinematography J. M. Burgoyne-Johnson
Ron Bicker
Edited by Derek Holding
Production
company
Distributed by Anglo-Amalgamated (UK)
Release date
 March 1954
Running time
 32 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

The Dark Stairway is a 1953 British short film.[1] It was one of a series of shorts made for British cinemas as second features in the 1950s made by Anglo-Amalgamated at the Merton Park Studios as part of the Scotland Yard film series.[2] They are narrated by crime writer Edgar Lustgarten, and were subsequently broadcast as television episodes.[3]

The film was also known as The Greek Street Murder.[4]

Plot

A blind man, George Benson, witnesses the murder of Harry Carpenter by Joe Lloyd. Benson finds himself accused of the murder. Inspector Jack Harmer finds the murder weapon and discovers Carpenter was murdered because he betrayed Lloyd to the police. Benson manages to identify Lloyd by his ring, voice and aftershave smell.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ "The Dark Stairway (1953)". BFI.
  2. ↑ The Dark Stairway at Sydney Film Festival
  3. ↑ http://dvdcompare.net/review.php?rid=2769
  4. ↑ Scotland Yard at CTVA accessed 25 June 2014
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