Dark Stairways

Dark Stairways
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Directed by	Robert F. Hill
Written by	Gordon Rigby
Story by	Marion Orth
Produced by	Carl Laemmle
Starring	Herbert Rawlinson Ruth Dwyer Hayden Stevenson
Cinematography	William Thornley
Production company	Universal Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	June 22, 1924 (1924-06-22)
Running time	5 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Dark Stairways is a 1924 American silent mystery film directed by Robert F. Hill and starring Herbert Rawlinson, Ruth Dwyer, and Hayden Stevenson.

Cast

• Herbert Rawlinson as Sheldon Polk
• Ruth Dwyer as Sunny Day
• Hayden Stevenson as Frank Farnsworth
• Robert Homans as 'Dippy' Blake (credited as Robert E. Homans)
• Walter Perry as Chris Martin
• Bonnie Hill as Rita Minar
• Kathleen O'Connor as Geraldine Lewis
• Dolores Rousse as Madge Armstrong (credited as Dolores Rousse)
• Emmett King as Henry Polk
• Lola Todd as Stenographer
• Tom McGuire as Police Chief
• Betsy Ann Hisle as Little Girl (uncredited)

Preservation

With no prints of Dark Stairways located in any film archives, it is a lost film.

Bibliography

• Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

• Dark Stairways at IMDb
• Synopsis at AllMovie