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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.
Take One False Step, though it has a supposedly comic montage in the opening credits and a cutesy ending, is far from a comedy. Andrew Gentling (just our Bill), an academic hoping to start a new university, runs into Catherine Sykes (Shelley Winters), a young old friend he worked with during WWII. Unhappily married, Catherine tries to seduce him.
Prof. Andrew Gentling, in Los Angeles to help found a new college, is inveigled by old flame Catherine Sykes into a midnight drive. Next day Catherine is missing, believed killed; friend Martha convinces Andrew that he's a prime suspect and should investigate before he's arrested.
Take One False Step teems with gaffes and implausibilities; nobody even bothered to decide what kind of movie it was supposed to be. Small wonder it ended up being a lousy one. 16 out of 29 found this helpful.
During a conference-trip to L.A., an academic runs into an old-flame and into trouble with the police when she disappears, presumed murdered. Please remember...
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TAKE ONE FALSE STEP, screen play by Irwin Shaw and Chester Erskine, from the story, "Night Call," by Irwin and David Shaw; directed and produced by Mr. Erskine. At the Rivoli.Andrew Gentling . . . . .
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