The Dark Stairway (also known as The Greek Street Murder[1]) is a 1954 British short film directed and written by Ken Hughes and starring Russell Napier and Vincent Ball.

[2][3] It was one of the Scotland Yard series of second feature shorts made in the 1950s for British cinemas by Anglo-Amalgamated at the Merton Park Studios.

[4][5] The films in the series are narrated by crime writer Edgar Lustgarten, and were subsequently broadcast as television episodes.

[6][7] A blind man, George Benson, witnesses the murder of Harry Carpenter by Joe Lloyd.

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "An unpretentious and workmanlike crime short in the Scotland Yard series, with broad, elementary characterisation and a clean story-line, which creditably builds up an atmosphere of realism.