
actors: | Sterling Hayden, Ruth Roman, Werner Klemperer, Richard Gaines, Jeanne Cooper, Charles Davis, Peter Hansen, Karl Ludwig Lindt, John Mitchum, John Frederick |
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director: | Henry S. Kesler |
genre: | Spy Drama, Mystery/Thriller, Film Noir, Drama |
line: | CF OOP |
year: | 1957 |
length: | 80 minutes |
released: | April 24, 2018 |
format: | DVD |
misc: | Widescreen, NTSC, Black & White |
language: | English (Subtitled), English (Original Language) |
Restored from the original camera negative and presented in 1.85:1 original aspect ratio.
Stranded in a small California town after experiencing car trouble, vacationing John Emmett is spared the tedium of bus travel when he has a chance meeting with Ann Nicholson—who offers him a lift if he'll agree to split the driving duties to Santa Fe. He soon learns that Ann is actually a patient recovering from a nervous breakdown, however, and a simple little road trip blossoms into a Cold War nightmare as the couple are ensnared in a web of mystery involving vital national security secrets!
Based on Donald Hamilton's "The Steel Mirror" (serialized in The Saturday Evening Post in 1948), 5 Steps to Danger stars film noir icon Sterling Hayden (The Asphalt Jungle) as a Hitchcockian hero innocently up to his neck in intrigue and danger. Ruth Roman, no stranger to noir films herself (The Window), is Hayden's love interest: a woman whose suspicious background makes her someone difficult to trust.
Directed by Henry Kessler, Danger also features several familiar classic TV faces among its supporting cast: Werner Klemperer, a two-time Emmy winner as Colonel Klink on Hogan's Heroes, portrays a psychiatrist, and daytime drama doyenne Jeanne Cooper (The Young and the Restless) is Roman's concerned nurse. Stir in uncredited contributions from Sidney Clute (Cagney & Lacey) and Ken Curtis (Gunsmoke), and you have in 5 Steps to Danger a crackling good suspense thriller that will keep you guessing to the very end!