Take One False Step
1949 · 94 MIN · IMDB 6.4 · 474 VOTES · DIR. Chester Erskine
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,690 lines
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00:02:28 Why Andrew Gentling.
00:05:01 We're meeting out here with a gentleman
00:07:58 Hellen?
00:11:17 Andy.
00:14:15 I'll be looking for you in the papers.
00:17:52 making me do what I don't wanna do!
00:22:27 Well, the last I saw of her
00:25:50 I was just minding my own business.
00:29:16 Keep your shirt on, will you?
00:35:51 Freddie was here.
00:39:28 San Francisco?
00:42:50 What is that?
00:45:59 You find the man who bit the dog?
00:50:23 The important thing in matters
00:54:07 Yeah, on my 10th birthday.
00:58:20 I'll be alone.
01:01:18 but the operator won't give me his address.
01:04:30 No cure ever.
01:10:04 Here.
01:14:45 The plow,
01:18:03 Accident?
01:26:02 I had a fight with your...
01:29:51 He was just trying to make trouble for us.
01:33:46 with the laying of this cornerstone.
Cast & Characters
William Powell
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
Henry Pritchard
Sheldon Leonard
Detective Pacciano
Howard Freeman
Dr. Markheim
Houseley Stevenson
Montgomery Thatcher
Paul Harvey
Mr. Arnspiger
Francis Pierlot
Dr. Herbert Watson
Jess Barker
Arnold Sykes
Mikel Conrad
Freddie Blair
Vangie Beilby
Old Lady at Lecture (uncredited)
Marjorie Bennett
Waitress (uncredited)
Leonard Bremen
Truck Driver (uncredited)
Paul Brinegar
Reporter (uncredited)
Frank Cady
Reporter (uncredited)
Edmund Cobb
Policeman (uncredited)
Helen Crozier
Maid (uncredited)
Johnny Duncan
Bellhop (uncredited)
Adolph Faylauer
Bald Man at Lecture (uncredited)
Sandra Gould
Newspaper Girl (uncredited)
Ethyl May Halls
Woman at Window (uncredited)
Chuck Hamilton
Policeman (uncredited)
Herbert Heywood
Attendant (uncredited)
Tommy Ivo
Horace - Boy at Roadblock (uncredited)
Lyle Latell
Reporter (uncredited)
George Lynn
Policeman (uncredited)
Enid Markey
Clara (uncredited)
Maurice Marsac
Louis (uncredited)
Charles McAvoy
Policeman (uncredited)
Ralph Peters
Portly Man (uncredited)
Jack Rice
Good Humor Man (uncredited)
Brick Sullivan
Policeman (uncredited)
Charles Sullivan
Truck Driver in Cafe (uncredited)
Jim Toney
Bartender (uncredited)
Harland Tucker
Clerk (uncredited)
Minerva Urecal
Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,690
Dialogue density18.0 lines / min
First line00:02:28
Final line01:33:46
Production Record
DirectorChester Erskine
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes474
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