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A Honeymoon Adventure (Original title)Footsteps in the Night (Alternative title)
Date: 07 March 1932 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Maurice Elvey

Synopsis: Thriller. While on honeymoon at a remote castle in Scotland, a scientist is kidnapped by the agents of enemy power The Syndicate, who plan to steal his design for an electric storage battery. A confusion about the whereabouts of the precious document leads to the chief enemy visiting the castle posing as the scientist's trusted friend, to trick the scientist's wife into letting him find the design. She twigs that not all is well, though, and attempts to turn the tables by getting the document to the police before the villain can seize it. As he is watching her closely, this requires an audacious plan of escape and a chase from Scotland to London ensues.

Genres:
Crime, Thriller

Subjects:
Espionage, Honeymooning
Releases
Date: 1931Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 66 mins Dialogue (original): English

Credits (16)
An Associated Radio Picture: Associated Radio Pictures, A Radio Picture: Radio Pictures Limited, Produced by: Basil Dean, Assistant Director: Raymond Friedgen, Screen Play by: Rupert Downing, John Carstairs, From the Novel by: C. Fraser Simson, Photographed by: Robert G. Martin, Alex Bryce, Editor: Otto Ludwig, Art Director: Norman G. Arnold, The Waltz Song Composed by: H. Fraser Simson, Musical Director: Ernest K. Irving, [Sound] Recorded by: Marcus Cooper, Sound System: RCA Photophone
Cast (10)
Benita Hume (Eve Martin), Harold Huth (Walter Creason), Peter Hannen (Peter Martin), Frances Ross Campbell (Janet), Walter Armitage (Judson), Polly Emery (old woman), Margery Binner (Josephine), Jack Lambert ([chauffeur]), Robert English ([Mr Harvey]), Fanny Wright ([uncredited])