Footsteps in the Fog

Footsteps in the Fog - 1955 | 90 mins | Thriller, Crime | Colour

The Production Team

Director: Arthur Lubin.
Producer: M.J. Frankovich and Maxwell Setton.
Script: Lenore J. Coffee, Dorothy Davenport and Arthur Pierson. (from the W.W. Jacobs story The Interruption)
Cinematography: Christopher Challis.
Film Editing: Alan Osbiston.
Art Direction: Wilfred Shingleton.
Costume Design: Beatrice Dawson and Elizabeth Haffenden.
Makeup Department: Betty Lee and Neville Smallwood.
Sound Department A.G. Ambler, John Cox and Red Law.
Original Music: Benjamin Frankel.

The Cast

Stewart Granger - Stephen Lowry
Jean Simmons - Lily Watkins
Bill Travers - David MacDonald
Finlay Currie - Insp. Peters
Ronald Squire - Alfred Travers
Belinda Lee - Elizabeth Travers
William Hartnell - Herbert Moresby

Plot Synopsis

Atmospheric, brooding thriller set in Victorian London, starring real-life husband-and-wife duo of Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons in one of their finest screen pairings. A classy British cast, evocative atmosphere and simmering sexual chemistry all help to ensure that Arthur Lubin’s gripping turn-of-the-century noir is a splendidly spiteful afternoon treat.

Prominent Victorian aristocrat Stephen Lowry (Stewart Granger) poisons his wife and thinks he's got away scot-free with murder - but doesn't count on the attentions of a blackmailing maid Lily Watkins (Simmons) who witnessed the whole sordid business. The fact she knows too puts her life in danger with her murderous boss, but in attempting to dispose of her, Lowry kills the wrong woman in the fog and is put on trial for murder.