Step Down To Terror (1958)

Pursued by detectives, a serial killer (Charles Drake) leaves the city and returns to his small hometown to visit his mother (Josephine Hutchinson). When he returns, there's an attraction between him and his widowed sister in law (Colleen Miller) but she soon becomes suspicious of him. Directed by Harry Keller (THE UNGUARDED MOMENT), this is an uncredited remake of Hitchcock's SHADOW OF A DOUBT with lots of changes. The uncle and niece are now brother in law and sister in law and the killer has a backstory that explains his psychotic homicidal behavior. Frankly, I've never been a fan of the Hitchcock film so I had no problem whatsoever with this version. In fact, I liked some of the casting better as I found Colleen Miller much more appealing than the whiny Teresa Wright and Rod Taylor's detective is an improvement over the bland Macdonald Carey. However, I suspect others will not agree. With Jocelyn Brando and Eleanor Audley.