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United States. Language. English. Step Down to Terror (also known as The Silent Stranger) is a 1958 American film noir crime film directed by Harry Keller and starring Colleen Miller, Charles Drake and Rod Taylor. It is a remake of the 1943 Alfred Hitchcock film Shadow of a Doubt.
- story Uncle Charlie by Gordon McDonnell
- Universal Pictures
- Joseph Gershenson
Step Down to Terror: Directed by Harry Keller. With Colleen Miller, Charles Drake, Rod Taylor, Josephine Hutchinson. A killer on the lam takes refuge in his childhood home where his mother and widowed sister-in-law are ignorant of his criminal past.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Harry Keller
- 1958-09
Synopsis. Remake of the Hitchcock film Shadow of a Doubt (1943). Pursued by detectives, Johnny Walters leaves the city to visit his family in a small California town. Among the household: his dead brother's luscious widow Helen, who soon is attracted to him.
Pursued by detectives, Johnny Walters leaves the city to visit his family in a small California town. Among the household: his dead brother's luscious widow Helen, who soon is attracted to him. Ominous events and conflicting evidence leave Helen suspicious, but uncertain about her brother-in-law...
- Harry Keller, Marshall Green, James Welch
- Colleen Miller
Trying to outwit police, a psychopathic killer (Charles Drake) returns to his mother's home after a long absence to play the role of loving son.
- Mystery & Thriller