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Footsteps in the Night

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Original title

Year

1957

Running time

62 min.

Country

United States

Director

Jean Yarbrough

Screenwriter

Albert Band, Elwood Ullman. Story: Albert Band

Cast

Music

Marlin Skiles

Cinematography

Harry Neumann (B&W)

Producer

Allied Artists

Genre

Film noir. Mystery | Crime

Synopsis

The fifth and last of the Ben Schwab productions starring Bill Elliott as a L.A. sheriff's department detective begins with Henry Johnson being sought by the sheriff's office for the murder of his neighbor and friend,Fred Horner, whose strangled body was found in Johnson's motel apartment. Lieutenant Andy Doyle of the Los Angeles sheriff's department learns that Johnson had been an avid card-playing gambler, and had frequently argued violently with the deceased. Trailing Johnson's fiancée, Mary Raikin, the police capture Johnson, who insists he did not kill Horner, but fled in panic when he discovered Johnson's body in his room after an absence of only a few minutes. It is discovered that a wealthy tenant of an adjacent motel, Bradbury, bears a resemblance to the murdered man, and in order to set him up as a decoy, Doyle suggests the Bradbury spread the word he is leaving for his home the next day...

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Footsteps in the Night

1957

Jean Yarbrough