---
title: 'Footsteps in the Dark (1941)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Lloyd Bacon'
released: '1941-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 96
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/footsteps-in-the-dark-1941'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033616/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Footsteps in the Dark (1941)

1941 · 96 min · Comedy · United States


## Synopsis

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. Pictures. 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Lloyd Bacon](https://cinepixo.com/people/lloyd-bacon)
- **Screenplay:** [Jeffrey Dell](https://cinepixo.com/people/jeffrey-dell), [John Wexley](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-wexley)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Friedrich Hollaender](https://cinepixo.com/people/friedrich-hollaender)
- **Producer:** [Hal B. Wallis](https://cinepixo.com/people/hal-b-wallis), [Robert Lord](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-lord)
- **Director of Photography:** [Ernest Haller](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernest-haller)
- **Editor:** [Owen Marks](https://cinepixo.com/people/owen-marks)

## Cast

- [Jack Mower](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-mower)
- [Frank Marlowe](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-marlowe)
- [Frank Wilcox](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-wilcox)
- [Creighton Hale](https://cinepixo.com/people/creighton-hale)
- [Turhan Bey](https://cinepixo.com/people/turhan-bey)
- [Roscoe Karns](https://cinepixo.com/people/roscoe-karns)
- [James Flavin](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-flavin)
- [Wade Boteler](https://cinepixo.com/people/wade-boteler)
- [Lucile Watson](https://cinepixo.com/people/lucile-watson)
- [Ralph Bellamy](https://cinepixo.com/people/ralph-bellamy)
- [William Frawley](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-frawley)
- [Allen Jenkins](https://cinepixo.com/people/allen-jenkins)
- [Harry Hayden](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-hayden)
- [Lee Patrick](https://cinepixo.com/people/lee-patrick)
- [Sarah Edwards](https://cinepixo.com/people/sarah-edwards)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/footsteps-in-the-dark-1941
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