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.