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Take One False Step

Take One False Step1949

★5.594 minCrimeDramaMystery

Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that he's a prime suspect and should investigate before he's arrested.

Director

Chester Erskine

Writer

Chester Erskine Irwin Shaw

Score

Stars

William Powell Shelley Winters Marsha Hunt

Cast42

William Powell
as Andrew Gentling
Shelley Winters
as Catherine Sykes
Marsha Hunt
as Martha Wier
Dorothy Hart
as Helen Gentling
James Gleason
as Captain Gledhill
Felix Bressart
as Professor Morris Avrum
Art Baker
as Henry Pritchard
Sheldon Leonard
as Detective Pacciano
Howard Freeman
as Dr. Markheim
Houseley Stevenson
as Montgomery Thatcher
Paul Harvey
as Mr. Arnspiger
Francis Pierlot
as Dr. Herbert Watson
Jess Barker
as Arnold Sykes
Mikel Conrad
as Freddie Blair
V
Vangie Beilby
as Old Lady at Lecture (uncredited)
Marjorie Bennett
as Waitress (uncredited)
Leonard Bremen
as Truck Driver (uncredited)
Paul Brinegar
as Reporter (uncredited)
Frank Cady
as Reporter (uncredited)
Edmund Cobb
as Policeman (uncredited)
H
Helen Crozier
as Maid (uncredited)
Johnny Duncan
as Bellhop (uncredited)
Adolph Faylauer
as Bald Man at Lecture (uncredited)
Sandra Gould
as Newspaper Girl (uncredited)
E
Ethyl May Halls
as Woman at Window (uncredited)
Chuck Hamilton
as Policeman (uncredited)
Herbert Heywood
as Attendant (uncredited)
Tommy Ivo
as Horace - Boy at Roadblock (uncredited)
Lyle Latell
as Reporter (uncredited)
George Lynn
as Policeman (uncredited)
Enid Markey
as Clara (uncredited)
Maurice Marsac
as Louis (uncredited)
Charles McAvoy
as Policeman (uncredited)
Ralph Peters
as Portly Man (uncredited)
Jack Rice
as Good Humor Man (uncredited)
B
Brick Sullivan
as Policeman (uncredited)
Charles Sullivan
as Truck Driver in Cafe (uncredited)
Jim Toney
as Bartender (uncredited)
Harland Tucker
as Clerk (uncredited)
Minerva Urecal
as Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Dorothy Vaughan
as Leona (uncredited)
C
Charles Flynn
as Policeman (uncredited)

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