Take One False Step
7.9 /10 2 Votes
Director Chester Erskine Music director Walter Scharf Duration Language English | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller Production Universal Studios Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date June 3, 1949 (1949-06-03) (Los Angeles)
June 22, 1949 (1949-06-22) (New York City) Based on the story Night Call
by David Shaw
Irwin Shaw Writer Chester Erskine (screenplay), David Shaw (novel), Irwin Shaw (novel), Irwin Shaw (screenplay) Cast William Powell (Professor Andrew Gentling), Shelley Winters (Catherine Sykes), Marsha Hunt (Martha Wier), Dorothy Hart (Helen Gentling), James Gleason (Captain Gledhill), Felix Bressart (Professor Morris Avrum)Similar movies William Powell appears in Take One False Step and Evelyn Prentice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Take One False Step is a 1949 film noir crime film directed by Chester Erskine and starring William Powell and Shelley Winters.
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Plot
A married college professor reluctantly agrees to have a drink with an old girlfriend; the next day he's being hunted for her murder.
Cast
Reception
The New York Times film critic, Bosley Crowther, panned the film and also gave the producers some advice. He wrote, "Something of the same drollery that was displayed by William Powell in his saturnine performance of Nick Charles in the Thin Man films is flashed by him on a few occasions in the Rivoli's new Take One False Step, a curiously mixed-up mystery picture which Chester Erskine produced, directed and helped to write. But for the most part our erstwhile detective and comedian is forced to play a role of rather painful proportions with forbidding austerity in this film ... a little more of Miss Winters—as an active participant, that is—might have rendered a rather drab picture more decorative, at least."
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