Movie

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

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

1960★ 6.5 · 152h 4mDrama

Overview

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

Eve Arden
as Lottie Lacey

Shirley Knight
as Reenie Flood

Robert Preston
as Rubin Flood

Dorothy McGuire
as Cora Flood

Frank Overton
as Morris Lacey

Addison Richards
as Harris

Helen Wallace
as Lydia Harper

Paul Comi
as Jenkins

Emerson Treacy
as George, the banker

Ken Lynch
as Harry Ralston

Lee Kinsolving
as Sammy Golden