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En los años 50, el viaje en coche de un hombre de Los Ángeles a Texas se convierte en un drama de espionaje de la Guerra Fría después de que su coche se averíe y acepte que le lleve un desco... Leer todoEn los años 50, el viaje en coche de un hombre de Los Ángeles a Texas se convierte en un drama de espionaje de la Guerra Fría después de que su coche se averíe y acepte que le lleve un desconocido.En los años 50, el viaje en coche de un hombre de Los Ángeles a Texas se convierte en un drama de espionaje de la Guerra Fría después de que su coche se averíe y acepte que le lleve un desconocido.
- Dirección
- Guionistas
- Elenco
Karl Ludwig Lindt
- Kissel
- (as Karl Lindt)
John Frederick
- Sheriff
- (as John Merrick)
Leonard Bremen
- Collision Shop Owner
- (sin créditos)
Sidney Clute
- Mechanic
- (sin créditos)
Ken Curtis
- FBI Agent Jim Anderson
- (sin créditos)
Harry Hines
- Motel Owner
- (sin créditos)
Tom McKee
- Man from Sanitarium
- (sin créditos)
Bert Stevens
- Motorcycle Cop
- (sin créditos)
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Sterling Hayden runs the show in this pretty entertaining late noir. He plays a man who finds himself helping, and marrying, a woman (Ruth Roman) who's been targeted by Russian spies and who's trying to get some stolen information in the hands of the American government. I saw this on TCM as part of a Ruth Roman tribute, and she's pretty good, and even gets a chance to be sharp and clever herself rather than wait around for a man to save her, but she's no match, nor is anyone else, for Hayden's gruff and macho screen presence. It also helps that he literally towers over every other actor in the movie.
Like many noirs from the 1950s, "5 Steps to Danger" is rife with paranoia and suspicion about Russia's potential for attacking the U. S., one of hundreds of films that were the product of the Cold War.
Grade: B+
Like many noirs from the 1950s, "5 Steps to Danger" is rife with paranoia and suspicion about Russia's potential for attacking the U. S., one of hundreds of films that were the product of the Cold War.
Grade: B+
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!
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!
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!
Low-budget but suspenseful Cold War yarn, with Sterling Hayden & Ruth Roman. Hayden is gruff John Emmett, whose car breaks down in California on his road to nowhere (supposedly en route to visit his folks in Texas). The suspiciously friendly Ann Nicholson (Roman) offers Emmett a lift, as long as he'll drive some. She's going to New Mexico.
Along the way, her psychiatrist (the future Col. Klink, Werner Klemperer) & his nurse pop up; with sundry likewise suspicious characters: cops, a university dean, CIA, FBI (Ken "Festus" Curtis), & hired killers. Ann's carrying missile secrets, which are carved into a ladies' mirror. There's a fine sudden twist to the showdown with the guy for whom the missile secrets are meant.
For a low-budget thriller, the acting's surprisingly low-key. Hayden does restrained bewilderment very well: quite contrary to his lead role in "The Killing," a couple years before. Roman is also restrained in her role as a suspected spy, with secrets of her own culled from both sides of the globe. As our Dad used to say, "A goody to see again!"
Along the way, her psychiatrist (the future Col. Klink, Werner Klemperer) & his nurse pop up; with sundry likewise suspicious characters: cops, a university dean, CIA, FBI (Ken "Festus" Curtis), & hired killers. Ann's carrying missile secrets, which are carved into a ladies' mirror. There's a fine sudden twist to the showdown with the guy for whom the missile secrets are meant.
For a low-budget thriller, the acting's surprisingly low-key. Hayden does restrained bewilderment very well: quite contrary to his lead role in "The Killing," a couple years before. Roman is also restrained in her role as a suspected spy, with secrets of her own culled from both sides of the globe. As our Dad used to say, "A goody to see again!"
This is a clever directing job to make a film noir mystery into a good film.
Film noir often stumbled from being too Hollywood, with heroes and heroines automatically acting creepy just for the sake of acting creepy.
Here, we get the opposite. The best mysteries have the woman being the "woman of mystery", because that is part of being a woman, while being a man means having your mystery come out of your very straight forward approach.
Sterling Hayden often acted gruff for the sake of acting gruff. A modern day guy who thought there was always a camera on him.
But here he acts more like a believable man from the fifties, or any era before the twenty first century.
He becomes the "everyman" who is introduced to a mysterious world, which involves espionage.
The CIA and FBI are put in a likable light, which doesn't go over well with those who like the post 1965 cliché. Being 1957, this goes under the old cliché, which really wasn't around long enough to be a cliché. That's why such CIA and FBI characters are still fresh, and in the long run, more believable than the silly assassins of today.
What helps here is a great atmosphere. We get some road, and not too much of the cars. We have a few pit stops, and changing scenery, which makes this flow very well.
Film noir often stumbled from being too Hollywood, with heroes and heroines automatically acting creepy just for the sake of acting creepy.
Here, we get the opposite. The best mysteries have the woman being the "woman of mystery", because that is part of being a woman, while being a man means having your mystery come out of your very straight forward approach.
Sterling Hayden often acted gruff for the sake of acting gruff. A modern day guy who thought there was always a camera on him.
But here he acts more like a believable man from the fifties, or any era before the twenty first century.
He becomes the "everyman" who is introduced to a mysterious world, which involves espionage.
The CIA and FBI are put in a likable light, which doesn't go over well with those who like the post 1965 cliché. Being 1957, this goes under the old cliché, which really wasn't around long enough to be a cliché. That's why such CIA and FBI characters are still fresh, and in the long run, more believable than the silly assassins of today.
What helps here is a great atmosphere. We get some road, and not too much of the cars. We have a few pit stops, and changing scenery, which makes this flow very well.
When his car breaks down during a trip from Los Angeles to Texas, John Emmett (Sterling Hayden) meets another motorist, Ann Nicholson (Ruth Roman), who offers him a lift. He learns that she is running away from her physician, Dr. Simmons (Werner Klemperer), and the police, who want to question her about a murdered Central Intelligence Agent in Los Angeles.
Werner Klemperer? The CIA? Murder? Oh yes. While this is not one of those big budget thrillers or spy stories, it is not a bad one. You like independent film, do you not? Well, this is what it looked like in the 1950s, when you worked outside the studio system.
Werner Klemperer? The CIA? Murder? Oh yes. While this is not one of those big budget thrillers or spy stories, it is not a bad one. You like independent film, do you not? Well, this is what it looked like in the 1950s, when you worked outside the studio system.
¿Sabías que…?
- TriviaFilmed before, but released after Ruth Roman's fateful trip aboard the luxury liner, Andrea Doria. The ship collided with another and sank on July 26, 1956. Miss Roman and her young son were among the survivors. During their rescue, they became separated and she arrived in New York before her son did. She was hounded by the press and paparazzi while she waited for her son's ship to arrived at the dock.
- ErroresAt the motel where Ann and John have a handyman bring them food and a hacksaw, there is no lock on the door to their room - not a chain or deadbolt or even a lock in the doorknob.
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- También se conoce como
- Five Steps of Terror
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- Presupuesto
- USD 500,000 (estimado)
- Tiempo de ejecución1 hora 21 minutos
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