
The Lodger(1944)
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.


“CLOSE ENOUGH TO KISS...OR KILL!”
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.

Stewart Granger
Stephen Lowry

Jean Simmons
Lily Watkins

Bill Travers
David Macdonald

Finlay Currie
Inspector Peters

Ronald Squire
Alfred Travers

Belinda Lee
Elizabeth Travers

William Hartnell
Herbert Moresby

Frederick Leister
Dr. Simpson

Percy Marmont
Magistrate

Marjorie Rhodes
Mrs. Park
Footsteps in the Fog is a thriller, drama, crime film released in 1955 exploring themes of victorian england, british noir, murder mystery. Directed by Arthur Lubin, it stars Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Bill Travers. A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
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