The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)

Everytime a woman turns her face away because she's tired or unwilling - there's someone waiting like me!

  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1960-09-28
  • User Rating: 6.7/10 from 11 ratings
  • Runtime: 2h 4min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Delbert Mann
star 6.7/10
From 11 Ratings

Summary

In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage daughter Reenie is afraid of going out on dates, but eventually makes friends with a troubled Jewish boy Sammy Golden, and his son is a mama's boy. He finally storms out of the house when Cora falsely accuses him of having an affair with Mavis Pruitt.

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  • Robert Preston

    as Rubin Flood

  • Dorothy McGuire

    as Cora Flood

  • Eve Arden

    as Lottie Lacey

  • Angela Lansbury

    as Mavis Pruitt

  • Shirley Knight

    as Reenie Flood

  • Lee Kinsolving

    as Sammy Golden

  • Frank Overton

    as Morris Lacey

  • Penny Parker

    as Flirt Conway

  • Robert Eyer

    as Sonny Flood

  • Robin Warga

    as Harold

  • Ken Lynch

    as Harry Ralston

  • Mary Patton

    as Peg Ralston

  • Addison Richards

    as Harris

  • Helen Wallace

    as Lydia Harper

  • Emerson Treacy

    as George, the banker

  • Peg La Centra

    as Edna Harper

  • Paul Comi

    as Jenkins
Directing Delbert Mann Director
Writing William Inge Theatre Play
Sound Max Steiner Original Music Composer
Production Michael Garrison Producer
Camera Harry Stradling Sr. Director of Photography
Writing Harriet Frank Jr. Screenplay
Writing Irving Ravetch Screenplay
Art Leo K. Kuter Art Direction
Editing Folmar Blangsted Editor
Art George James Hopkins Set Decoration
Costume & Make-Up Marjorie Best Costume Design
Art Robert Turner Props

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