The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960) – DVD – New – Region 1

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (DVD) 1960 Robert Preston and Dorothy McGuire

In Oklahoma in the 1920s,  Rubin Flood loses his salesman job. While searching for a new job, he must deal with his wife, Cora, who shuns intimacy and mistakes his joblessness for stinginess, his shy daughter who prepares for her first dance and his pre-teen son who runs to his mother instead of dealing with bullies. He tries to find comfort with a friend, Mavis Pruitt, thus setting off rumors of an untoward relationship.

Starring:

Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Angela Lansbury, Shirley Knight, Eve Arden, Lee Kinsolving. Written by Harriet Frank Jr., Irving Ravetch

*based on the play by William Inge. Directed by Delbert Mann.