Footsteps in the Dark
Footsteps in the Dark is a 1941 American comedy mystery film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall and Ralph Bellamy. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Flynn plays a novelist and amateur detective investigating a murder. It takes its title from the 1935 play Footsteps in the Dark by Ladislas Fodor and also used material from the 1937 play Blondie White by Jeffrey Dell.
Plot
Francis Warren appears to have a normal life handling investments, but secretly he writes lurid detective novels under the pseudonym F.X. Pettijohn. His other career is unknown to wife Rita or to anyone but Inspector Mason, who mocks the books, insisting that true crime is much more difficult to solve.
Cast
- Alan Hale
- Allen Jenkins
- Bob Reeves
- Brenda Marshall
- Charles Sullivan
- Creighton Hale
- Errol Flynn
- Frank Faylen
- Frank Marlowe
- Frank Wilcox
- Glen Cavender
- Grant Mitchell
- Harry Hayden
- Jack La Rue
- Jack Mower
- James Flavin
- John Dilson
- Lee Patrick
- Lucile Watson
- Ralph Bellamy
- Roscoe Karns
- Sarah Edwards
- Turhan Bey
- Wade Boteler
- Walter Sande
- William Frawley
More details
| author | Jeffrey Dell John Wexley |
|---|---|
| director | Lloyd Bacon |
| editor | Owen Marks |
| genre | comedy mystery |
| keywords | assumed identity autopsy build burlesque burlesque dancer claim cremate cremation defamation fbi federal bureau of investigation kill libel married meet murder murder case prime suspect private detective secret life smuggle smuggling ring social register taxi driver think true crime |
| musicBy | Friedrich Hollaender |
| producer | Hal B. Wallis Robert Lord |
| productionCompany | Warner Bros. |
| publisher | Warner Bros. |