Expert: Mel - 12/3/2006

Question
Looking for title of 40's-50's Brit. mystery. Plot: Henpecked husband leaves invalid wife in bed, walks in park, meets & becomes infatuated with young woman. Man returns home, ignores wife's calls from 2nd floor, she comes down stairs, trips, dies. Then a British detective arrives to investigate a suspicious death. That's all I saw of the movie.

Thanks for your help.

Answer
Hello Charles,

I'm not completely certain about this one, but it sounds very similar to a 1955 film called "Footsteps In The Fog" which starred Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons, with Finlay Currie as the Police Inspector.

Here is a basic plot otline........"To his Victorian London friends, Stephen Lowry is a heartbroken widower. Only his housemaid Lily knows that his wife, far from dying of gastroenteritis, was slowly poisoned by her husband - information she is happy to use to improve her position in the household and to make sure she stays close to Stephen. As his own prospects improve with a business partnership and a romance more of his own class, Stephen decides that Lily must go. Unfortunately for him, his first attempt gives her even more of a hold over him."

Does that sound like it?

Glad to be of help. Cheers........Mel.