Dark Stairways

{{short description|1924 film directed by Robert F. Hill}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Dark Stairways | image = Dark Stairways (1924) - 1.jpg | caption = Advertisement | director = Robert F. Hill | producer = Carl Laemmle | writer = Gordon Rigby | story = Marion Orth | starring = {{ubl|Herbert Rawlinson|Ruth Dwyer|Hayden Stevenson}} | music = | cinematography =William Thornley | editing = | studio = Universal Pictures | distributor = Universal Pictures | released = {{Film date|1924|06|22}} | runtime = 5 reels | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }} '''''Dark Stairways''''' is a 1924 American silent mystery film directed by Robert F. Hill and starring Herbert Rawlinson, Ruth Dwyer, and Hayden Stevenson.<ref>Munden p. 171</ref><ref>[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/D/DarkStairways1924.html Progressive Silent Film List: ''Dark Stairways''] at silentera.com</ref>

==Cast== {{Cast listing| * 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,<ref>[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.4626/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: ''Dark Stairways'']</ref> it is a lost film.

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==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== *{{IMDb title|0014830}}

Category:1924 films Category:1924 mystery films Category:1924 English-language films Category:American silent feature films Category:American silent mystery films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Films directed by Robert F. Hill Category:Universal Pictures films Category:English-language mystery films Category:1924 American films