Footsteps in the Night ** (1957, Bill Elliott, Don Haggerty, Eleanore Tanin, Douglas Dick) – Classic Movie Review 9702

Bill Elliott and Don Haggerty star as LA police detectives Lt. Andy Doyle and Sgt. Mike Duncan, who investigate the death in a motel of Elliott’s neighbour buddy Fred Horner (Robert Shayne), apparently caused by a fellow gambler. Naturally, all is not as it seems.

Jean Yarbrough’s 1957 detective movie Footsteps in the Night is a mild but tolerable filler thriller, based on a story by Albert Band. It is commendably short (62 minutes) and fast moving, with good work from a cast of decent characters actors.

Bill Elliott (1904–1965).

It is the last film of Wild Bill Elliott, his 267th film credit. He died of cancer on 26 November 1965, aged 61.

Also in the cast are Eleanore Tanin, Douglas Dick, Gregg Palmer, James Flavin, Harry Tyler, John Close, Bill Cassidy, Don Marlowe, Michael Garth, Robert Shayne, David Orrick, Forrest Taylor, Minerva Urecal, John Bleifer, Ralph Sanford, Ray Walker, Ann Griffith, Edna Skinner, Doug Andrews and David Showalter.

Footsteps in the Night is directed by Jean Yarbrough, runs 62 minutes, is made and released by Allied Artists, is written by Albert Band (story and screenplay) and Elwood Ullman (screenplay), is shot in black and white by Harry Neumann, produced by Ben Schwalb, scored by Marlin Skiles, and designed by Dave Milton.

It is the fifth and last of the Ben Schwalb productions series of detective movies starring Bill Elliott as an LA sheriff’s department detective.

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