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Step Down to Terror is a american film of genre Drama directed by Harry Keller released in USA on 1 september 1958 with Charles Drake

Step Down to Terror (1958)

Step Down to Terror
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Released in USA 1 september 1958
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Crime
Rating60% 3.0465553.0465553.0465553.0465553.046555

Step Down to Terror (also known as The Silent Stranger) is a 1958 American film directed by Harry Keller. It is a remake of the 1943 Alfred Hitchcock film Shadow of a Doubt.

Synopsis

Johnny Williams (Drake), a psychotic serial killer who returns to his hometown to visit his mother (Hutchinson) and widowed sister-in-law Helen (Miller), both of whom are ignorant of his criminal past. Johnny hopes to settle down and start life anew, but Helen, her suspicions aroused by visiting detective Mike Randall (Taylor), discovers the truth about her beloved brother-in-law. Failing to talk Helen out of turning him in, Johnny methodically plots her murder. When all his plans fail he drags Helen into his car and drives off with her. Knowing Johnny is going to kill her, Helen grabs the keys, and he is forced to swerve to avoid hitting a boy riding his bike, and is killed in the resulting accident. At the memorial service, as Johnny is lauded as a model citizen, only Helen and Mike know the real truth.

Actors

Charles Drake

(Johnny Walters)Colleen Miller

(Helen Walters)Rod Taylor

(Mike Randall)Josephine Hutchinson

(Mrs. Walters)Jocelyn Brando

(Lily)
And :
Eleanor Audley
Ricky Kelman
Ann Doran
Harold Goodwin
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