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23 August 1946 (USA) morePlot:
Johnny, an ex-Marine, and Evelyn, a chance acquaintance, find themselves caught up in a plot involving Nazi spies in California. | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Wartime propaganda programmer a clumsy embarrassment, only good for a few giggles moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Lawrence Tierney | ... | Johnny Christopher |
| Anne Jeffreys | ... | Evelyn Smith |
| Lowell Gilmore | ... | Von Dorn |
| Jason Robards Sr. | ... | Bruckner (as Jason Robards) |
| Myrna Dell | ... | Gretchen |
| George Cleveland | ... | Caleb Simpson |
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Maybe RKO got caught short by V-E and V-J day but decided to release this wartime propaganda programmer anyway. It's still a clumsy embarrassment all around. Just-demobbed leatherneck Lawrence Tierney spots a comely blonde (Anne Jeffreys) going in for a swim along the Pacific Coast Highway and decides to join her. She's just signed up a secretary to a senator on a hush-hush assignment but both she and her employer are kidnapped by Nazis and replaced by imposters (in her place is Myrna Dell, who looks like she just `bit into a green persimmon'). Tierney spends half the movie in bathing trunks trying to find her even though the police are now after them as a pair of killers. The whole thing looks dark and cheap; not even Jason Robards (Sr.) as an unctuous German helps out. Director Phil Rosen doesn't even attain the level of competence he did in his several Charlie Chan flicks. Step by Step's only virtue lies in eliciting giggles at the awkwardness of its script, its acting, its production values and even its ideology.