Footsteps in the Fog *** (1955, Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Bill Travers) – Classic Movie Review 9378

Director Arthur Lubin’s 1955 British noir Footsteps in the Fog is a solid Fifties British-made, Hitchcockian Suspicion-style thriller, with stylish acting from the then real-life husband-and-wife team Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons as the wife poisoner Stephen Lowry and his blackmailer maid Lily Watkins, who loves him in London in 1905.

Soon Lowry (Granger) is trying to murder Lily (Simmons), too, but then there is a fatal mix-up in the fog.

Footsteps in the Fog is quite dark and scary, and set against a convincing Edwardian backdrop. Director Lubin keep the suspense up nicely and there’s polished Technicolor photography from Christopher Challis, though this time you expect it in black and white.

The screenplay by Dorothy Davenport [Dorothy Reid], Lenore J Coffee and Arthur Pierson is based on W W Jacobs’s novel The Interruption.

Also in the cast are Bill Travers, Ronald Squire, Finlay Currie, Peter Bull, Belinda Lee, William Hartnell, Marjorie Rhodes, Percy Marmont, Peter Williams, Frederick Leister, Barry Keegan, Sheila Manahan and Victor Maddern.

Footsteps in the Fog is directed by Arthur Lubin, runs 90 minutes, is made by Frankovich Productions, is released by Columbia Pictures, is written by Dorothy Davenport [Dorothy Reid], Lenore J Coffee and Arthur Pierson is based on W W Jacobs’s novel The Interruption, is shot by Christopher Challis, is produced by Mike Frankovich and Maxwell Setton, is scored by Benjamin Frankel, and is designed by Wilfrid Shingleton.

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