The Dark Stairway (1953)

Directed by

Ken Hughes

Genre

crime film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

30 min

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This short crime film follows police investigating a murder. A narrator from Scotland Yard guides viewers through the case as detectives search for clues and suspects in London.

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What happens

The Dark Stairway (also known as The Greek Street Murder) is a 1954 British short film directed and written by Ken Hughes and starring Russell Napier and Vincent Ball. 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. The films in the series are narrated by crime writer Edgar Lustgarten, and were subsequently broadcast as television episodes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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