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Footsteps in the Dark (1941)

Footsteps in the Dark poster
Directed by
Lloyd Bacon
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 36m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 13 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A novelist who solves crimes as a hobby investigates a murder. He gets mixed up with suspects and a police detective.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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