Footsteps in the Night (1. Overview. The fifth and last of the Ben Schwab productions starring Bill Elliott as a L. A. Lieutenant Andy Doyle (Bill Elliott) of the Los Angeles sheriff's department learns that Johnson had been an avid card- playing gambler, and had frequently argued violently with the deceased. Trailing Johnson's fiancee, Mary Raikin (Eleanore Tanin), the police capture Johnson, who insists he did not kill Horner, but fled in panic when he discovered Johnson's body in his room after an absence of only a few minutes. It is discovered that a wealthy tenant of an adjacent motel, Bradbury (James Flavin), bears a resemblence to the murdered man, and in order to set him up as a decoy, Doyle suggests the Bradbury spread the word he is leaving for his home the next day. That night, the real killer,Pat Orvello (Gregg Palmer), sneaks into Bradbury's room to rob him, but is shot and captured by Doyle and his men. Earlier, the robber/killer had mistaken the neighboring motels, killed the wrong man in his robbery attempt, and had left the body in Johnson's room. Los Angeles police detectives Lt. Mike Duncan are assigned to investigate the murder of Fred Horner, who has been strangled at the Sunset Villa Motel in West Hollywood. Horner's body was found in the unit occupied by his neighbor, Henry Johnson, who is now missing. Dick Harris, the motel's owner and manager, is convinced that Henry committed the murder as he had heard the two men arguing. Henry, a gambling addict, explains to his fianc. When Henry emerged from the kitchen, he found Horner dead on the floor, panicked and ran away. After Henry refuses to turn himself in to the police, Mary manages to convince him to go to see his psychiatrist, Dr. Green, who has been treating him for his compulsive gambling problem. Read the full synopsis of Footsteps in the Night, 1957, directed by Jean Yarbrough, with Bill Elliott, Don Haggerty, Eleanore Tanin, at Turner Classic Movies. Search for 'Footsteps in the Night' on Amazon.com. Title: Footsteps in the Night (1957) 5.9 /10. Want to share IMDb's. Find similar and related movies for Footsteps in the Night (1957) - Jean Yarbrough on AllMovie. Meanwhile, in an attempt to elicit information about Horner, Mike talks with Pat Orvello, the assistant manager at a gas station where Horner had his car serviced. Green advises Henry to turn himself in, Henry leaves and attempts to buy a bus ticket for San Francisco, but is spotted by a deputy who sees him escape in a taxi. In the course of his investigation, Mike discovers that the frugal Horner had one hundred thousand dollars in his bank account and that Henry had just cashed two five- hundred dollar checks from Horner. After a plainclothes deputy, who has been tailing Mary, advises Andy that she is waiting for someone in a drug store coffee shop, Andy and Mike go there and when Henry arrives, arrest him. In jail, Henry explains how he became involved with Horner: Although Henry told Horner that he had a very serious gambling problem and was trying to quit, the older man lured him into a game of poker. They played frequently and Horner became increasingly angry as he kept losing and insisted upon trying to win his money back. Footsteps in the Snow is a new original documentary that recounts the coldest case in American history, which took 55 years to be solved – the 1957 abduction.On the night of the murder, Horner left to get some ice from his room and soon after, Henry found him dead. After Henry insists that he did not kill Horner and had fled only because he feared that he would be incriminated, Andy, believing that Henry may be innocent, returns to the Sunset Villa Motel, then visits the adjacent Sunset Vista Motel. Andy suggests to Mike that perhaps the murderer had confused the motels, which have identical bungalows, and was actually after a Mr. Bradbury, the occupant of room eight, Horner's room number in the other motel. Mike investigates Bradbury and learns that he runs a chemical laboratory that prepares vaccines against animal diseases and is in town for only a few more days. Andy talks with the gregarious Bradbury, and upon discovering that he carries a large amount of cash, three thousand dollars, with him, convinces Bradbury to become bait for the killer by flashing his wad of bills at different establishments he has been patronizing. Andy also persuades his chief to free Henry, who reconciles with Mary and agrees to start a new life with her. Bradbury goes to Orvello's gas station to leave his car for overnight servicing and flashes his money roll. That night, Andy, Mike and two officers stake out both motels and observe a shadowy figure enter Bradbury's room through a window. Bradbury is about to be strangled when Andy rushes in, but the assailant escapes into the communal parking lot and becomes involved in a shootout with the officers. When Henry drives up with Mary to retrieve some items from his room, the killer slugs him, pushes Mary out of the vehicle and drives off, but is soon captured. Later, Andy and Mike explain to Henry and Mary that the killer was Orvello, on the run for crimes committed on the East Coast, who had seen Bradford's money roll, but had gone to the wrong motel. After killing Horner by mistake, Orvello, who had heard the men arguing, dumped the body in Henry's room to incriminate him. Henry and Mary thank Andy and Mike, then head to the marriage license bureau. Footsteps in the Night (1957) is a movie genre Crime produced by Allied Artists Pictures was released in United States of America on 1957-04-14 with directo. Find trailers, reviews, synopsis, awards and cast information for Footsteps in the Night (1957) - Jean Yarbrough on AllMovie - 'Wild Bill' Elliot once again plays. Footsteps in the Night
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