Footsteps in the Fog

Footsteps in the Fog is a 1955 British crime film starring Jean Simmons and Stewart Granger, with a screenplay co-written by Lenore Coffee and Dorothy Davenport, and released by Columbia Pictures. It is based on the short story "The Interruption" by W.W. Jacobs. After poisoning his wife, the master of the house (Stewart Granger), is blackmailed by his Cockney maid (Jean Simmons) who demands promotion. As she steadily takes the place of his dead wife, he again attempts murder. Granger and Simmons were a married couple at the time, "and their scenes together are perversely touching, even as they seek to outwit one another. Simmons delivers another superb performance as one of the most sweetly innocent femme fatales of the big screen,...