Take One False Step (1949)
- Starring:
- William Powell, Shelley Winters, (more)
- Director(s):
- Chester Erskine
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William Powell stars in Take One False Step as a happily married college professor who foolishly agrees to a reunion supper with old flame Shelley Winters. Winters later disappears, and the evidence points to murder. To allay suspicion--and to avoid losing an important financial grant to his university--Powell starts his own investigation. The trail leads him to San Francisco, where poor Powell becomes mired in a confusing crime plot. Fortunately, Winters is still alive; unfortunately, Powell may not be for long. Adapted from the Irwin Shaw novel Night Call, Take One False Step is saved from tawdriness by the innate dignity of William Powell. Also, the film is leavened by unexpected moments of humor, notably the relaxed banter between Powell and Shelley Winters. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- William Powell - Prof. Andrew Gentling
- Marsha Hunt - Martha Wier
- James Gleason - Gledhill
- Art Baker - Dr. Henry Pritchard
- Howard Freeman - Dr. Markheim
- Paul Harvey - Mr. Arnspiger
- Jess Barker - Arnold Sykes
- Marjorie Bennett - Waitress
- Tommy Ivo - Boy
- Harland Tucker - Clerk
- Jack Rice - Good Humor Man
- Maurice Marsac - Louis the Maitre d'
- George Lynn
- Helen Crozier - Maid
- Tony Curtis - Hot Rod Driver
- Herbert Heywood - Attendant
- Charles Flynn
- Paul Brinegar - Player
- Edmund Cobb
- Shelley Winters - Catherine Sykes
- Dorothy Hart - Helen Gentling
- Felix Bressart - Prof. Morris Avrum
- Sheldon Leonard - Det. Pacciano
- Houseley Stevenson, Sr. - Montgomery Thatcher
- Francis Pierlot - Prof. Herbert Watson
- Mikel Conrad - Freddie Blair
- Sandra Gould - Newspaper Girl
- Minerva Urecal - Woman Gas Station Attendant
- Jim Toney - Bartender
- Ralph Peters - Portly Man
- Enid Markey - Clara
- Lyle Latell - Reporter
- Charles McAvoy - Policeman
- Dorothy Vaughan - Leona
- Ethel May Halls - Woman at Window
- Lennie Bremen - Truck Driver
- Frank Cady
- Director(s):
- Chester Erskine
- Writer(s):
- Walter Scharf, Irwin Shaw, Chester Erskine
- Producer(s):
- Chester Erskine
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