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The Dark at the Top of the Stairs is a 1960 American drama film directed by Delbert Mann and starring Robert Preston and Dorothy McGuire. Shirley Knight garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress and Lee Kinsolving was nominated for a Golden Globe Award as Best Supporting Actor .
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs: Directed by Delbert Mann. With Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Arden, Angela Lansbury. In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood (Robert Preston) loses his job as a travelling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home.
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- Drama
- Delbert Mann
- 1960-10-08
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs is a 1957 play by William Inge about family conflicts during the early 1920s in a small Oklahoma town. It was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play in 1958 and was made into a film of the same name in 1960. It is the most autobiographical of all Inge plays.
- William Inge
- 1957
He lost his job as a traveling salesman, and his increasingly distant wife, Cora (Dorothy McGuire), blames him for the family's financial troubles. His daughter (Shirley Knight), seeks refuge in ...
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- Robert Preston
- Delbert Mann
- Warner Brothers/Seven Arts
Brief Synopsis. Changing times create sexual tensions among members of a small-town family in the '20s.
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.
A 1960 drama film about a harness salesman's infidelity, his daughter's love and a Jewish boy's suicide. Starring Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Shirley Knight and Angela Lansbury.
