Take One False Step is a 1949 American film noir crime film directed by Chester Erskine and starring William Powell and Shelley Winters.[1]
Take One False Step | |
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Directed by | Chester Erskine |
Screenplay by | Chester Erskine Irwin Shaw |
Based on | the story Night Call by David Shaw Irwin Shaw |
Produced by | Chester Erskine |
Starring | William Powell Shelley Winters |
Cinematography | Franz Planer |
Edited by | Russell F. Schoengarth |
Music by | Walter Scharf |
Color process | Black and white |
Production company | Universal Pictures |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
A married college professor reluctantly agrees to have a drink with an old girlfriend; the next day he's being hunted for her murder.
The New York Times film critic, Bosley Crowther, panned the film and also gave the producers some advice. He wrote, "Something of the same drollery that was displayed by William Powell in his saturnine performance of Nick Charles in the Thin Man films is flashed by him on a few occasions in the Rivoli's new Take One False Step, a curiously mixed-up mystery picture which Chester Erskine produced, directed and helped to write. But for the most part our erstwhile detective and comedian is forced to play a role of rather painful proportions with forbidding austerity in this film ... a little more of Miss Winters—as an active participant, that is—might have rendered a rather drab picture more decorative, at least."[2]