The Devil’s Stairway - 1964 - 6/10
AKA - Maeui Gyedan // 마의 계단
The affair between the head surgeon and an attractive nurse has frayed.
His attitude is, “This is all fun, but not permanent.” Her reply is a terse, “I’m pregnant.”
Meanwhile, the director of the small hospital wants to make the surgeon his successor.
Contingent on him marrying his attractive (and younger than the nurse) daughter.
So, nurse Jin-suk has become a major inconvenience, and needs to be sorted.
Solid psychological thriller looks like a Noir, with supernatural overtones.
Since solving the “nurse problem” leaves surgeon Hyeon in a worsening state.