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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
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
- Colleen Miller
- Harry Keller
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.
Synopsis. In New Orleans, when Johnny Walters discerns that two detectives are tailing him, he eludes them and heads for the northern California home of his mother Sarah, whom he has not seen for over six years. Sarah is thrilled at the return of her beloved son, as is her widowed daughter-in-law, Helen, whose young son Doug needs a male ...
Summaries. 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. 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.
