The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960) |
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| Director(s) | Delbert Mann |
| Producer(s) | Michael Garrison |
| Top Genres | Drama, Film Adaptation |
| Top Topics | Based on Play |
Featured Cast of The Dark at the Top of the Stairs See More »
Robert Preston(as Rubin Flood)
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
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1960
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
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1960
Robert Preston
(as Rubin Flood)
Dorothy McGuire(as Cora Flood)
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
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1960
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
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1960
Dorothy McGuire
(as Cora Flood)
Eve Arden(as Lottie Lacey)
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
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1960
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
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1960
Eve Arden
(as Lottie Lacey)
Angela Lansbury(as Mavis Pruitt)
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
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1960
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
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1960
Angela Lansbury
(as Mavis Pruitt)
Shirley Knight(as Reenie Flood)
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
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1960
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
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1960
Shirley Knight
(as Reenie Flood)
Frank Overton(as Morris Lacey)
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
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1960
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
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1960
Frank Overton
(as Morris Lacey)
Paul Birch(as Jonah Mills)
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
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1960
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
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1960
Paul Birch
(as Jonah Mills)
Emerson Treacy(as George Williams)
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
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1960
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Released
1960
Emerson Treacy
(as George Williams)
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs Overview:
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960) was a Drama - Film Adaptation Film directed by Delbert Mann and produced by Michael Garrison.
Academy Awards 1960 --- Ceremony Number 33 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Supporting Actress | Shirley Knight | Nominated |
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The Dark at the Top of the Stairs Quotes:
Executive:
We sell new machinery. What do you know about drilling equipment for oil fields?
Rubin Flood: Not a thing.
Executive: Then why should we hire you?
Rubin Flood: You chew tobacco, mister?
Executive: I beg your pardon!
Rubin Flood: You talk crops and weather? You know who's had a baby lately? You know who goes to church and who don't? Who likes corn liquor and who likes store liquor? Who's a Republican, who's a Democrat?
Executive: Our methods are a little more modern than that.
Rubin Flood: Well, I'm telling you that the people out here are farmers, no matter how much oil they got in their land. You want to come out of this territory with a profit? You'd be better off taking that diamond stickpin out of your tie and putting a straw hat on the back of your head and a chaw in your cheek! You're gonna have to hunker down and talk business with a man who's cleaning out his pigsty. That's where a lot of sales are made... and it can't be done in a New York suit!
Rubin Flood: Not a thing.
Executive: Then why should we hire you?
Rubin Flood: You chew tobacco, mister?
Executive: I beg your pardon!
Rubin Flood: You talk crops and weather? You know who's had a baby lately? You know who goes to church and who don't? Who likes corn liquor and who likes store liquor? Who's a Republican, who's a Democrat?
Executive: Our methods are a little more modern than that.
Rubin Flood: Well, I'm telling you that the people out here are farmers, no matter how much oil they got in their land. You want to come out of this territory with a profit? You'd be better off taking that diamond stickpin out of your tie and putting a straw hat on the back of your head and a chaw in your cheek! You're gonna have to hunker down and talk business with a man who's cleaning out his pigsty. That's where a lot of sales are made... and it can't be done in a New York suit!
Rubin Flood:
Oh, you always got a excuse. But the plain fact is, a lot of time goes by without our making love. Cora, this is a marriage!
Cora Flood: There are other things in marriage.
Rubin Flood: Yeah, but the part I'm talking about is natural! It's normal and it's necessary! God planned it that way, and ain't nobody come up with anything better since Adam and Eve!
Cora Flood: There are other things in marriage.
Rubin Flood: Yeah, but the part I'm talking about is natural! It's normal and it's necessary! God planned it that way, and ain't nobody come up with anything better since Adam and Eve!
Rubin Flood:
[To Lottie after he overhears her prejudice comments towards Catholics] Hogwash! Malarky! Horse manure! Woman you oughta get yourself a broom and ride over the housetops! You oughta buy yourself a sheet and poke two holes in it and go around setting fires! Or better still, get yourself a big piece of tape and put it over your mouth because you're too ignorant to live! Lottie sometimes I'm ashamed to be related to you even by marriage!
Ed Peabody:
It's a new world, and we don't belong in it.
Rubin Flood: Any world I'm in, I belong in!
Rubin Flood: Any world I'm in, I belong in!
[Setting out to find a new job.]
Rubin Flood: Well, I sold everything else in my time. I guess I can sell myself.
See More Quotes from The Dark at the Top of the StairsRubin Flood: Well, I sold everything else in my time. I guess I can sell myself.
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The original Broadway production of "Dark at the Top of the Stairs" by William Inge opened at the Music Box Theater in New York City on December 5, 1957, ran for 468 performances and was nominated for the 1958 Tony Award for the Best Play. Frank Overton recreated his stage role as Morris Lacey in the movie version.