Take One False Step (1949)

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. But this only puts Andrew in a more deadly kind of danger.

Genre: Thriller | Mystery | Drama

Country: United States of America  

themoviedb.org: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/30625

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041945/

Director(s) / Writer(s):

Chester Erskine

Chester Erskine

Irwin Shaw

Cast:

William Powell

Professor Andrew Gentling

Shelley Winters

Catherine Sykes

Marsha Hunt

Martha Wier

Dorothy Hart

Helen Gentling

James Gleason

Captain Gledhill

Felix Bressart

Professor Morris Avrum

Art Baker

Dr. Henry Pritchard

Sheldon Leonard

Detective Pacciano

Howard Freeman

Dr. Markheim

Houseley Stevenson

Dr. Montgomery Thatcher

Paul Harvey

A.K. Arnspiger

Francis Pierlot

Prof. Herbert Watson

Jess Barker

Arnold Sykes

Mikel Conrad

Freddie Blair