The Dark Stairway (1953 film)
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Director Ken Hughes Screenplay Ken Hughes Duration Country United Kingdom | 6.4/10 IMDb Genre Crime, Short Producer Alec C. Snowden Writer Ken Hughes Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date March 1954 Initial release March 1954 (United Kingdom) Cast Edgar Lustgarten (Host), Russell Napier (Inspector Jack Hammond), Edwin Richfield (Joe Lloyd), Vincent Ball (Sgt Gifford), Bill Nagy (Bar Owner)Similar movies Related Ken Hughes movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Dark Stairway is a 1953 British short film. It was one of a series of shorts made for British cinemas as second features in the 1950s by Merton Park Studios about Scotland Yard, called Scotland Yard. They were narrated by crime writer Edgar Lustgarten, and subsequently broadcast as TV episodes.
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The film was also known as The Greek Street Murder.
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.
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