The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
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  • Genre: Drama
  • Running time: 124 min
  • Premiere: 28th of September 1960

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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Cast

Angela Lansbury
as Mavis Pruitt
Robert Preston
as Rubin Flood
Dorothy McGuire
as Cora Flood
Frank Overton
as Morris Lacey
Eve Arden
as Lottie Lacey
Shirley Knight
as Reenie Flood
Paul Comi
as Jenkins
Helen Wallace
as Lydia Harper
Ken Lynch
as Harry Ralston
Lee Kinsolving
as Sammy Golden
Mary Patton
as Peg Ralston
Emerson Treacy
as George, the banker
Peg La Centra
as Edna Harper

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