The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)

Drama

Robert Preston plays the flip side of his eternally ebullient Professor Harold Hill in Dark at the Top of the Stairs. Preston portrays an early 20th-century harness salesman, fully aware that his product is rapidly becoming obsolete. He tries to compensate for his own lack of self-esteem by cheating on his patient wife Dorothy McGuire; Preston's "other woman" is played by Angela Lansbury. Meanwhile, daughter Shirley Knight falls in love with Jewish boy Lee Kinsolving, who kills himself in the face of relentless bigotry.

Updated May 25 2020

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1960-09-28

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FACTS

Runtime: 124 mins Rating: 7.0 Tag Line: Everytime a woman turns her face away because she's tired or unwilling - there's someone waiting like me!

Cast

Eve Arden

Lottie Lacey

Ken Lynch

Harry Ralston

Frank Overton

Morris Lacey

Angela Lansbury

Mavis Pruitt

Dorothy McGuire

Cora Flood

Shirley Knight

Reenie Flood

Robert Preston

Rubin Flood

Emerson Treacy

George, the banker