You can read the script from the 1948 performance here and either listen to it here or download it from the internet archive. Chase a crooked shadow 1958 journeys in classic film. Chase a crooked shadow richard todd anne baxter herbert lom 1958 the arrival of her presumeddead brother richard todd drives an heiress anne baxter to the brink of insanity. Chase a crooked shadow trailer 1958 video detective. Anne baxter, richard todd, herbert lom, alexander knox, faith brook, alan tilvern.
Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon. Chase a crooked shadow movie trailer and videos tv guide. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing chase a crooked shadow near you. Chase a crooked shadow was based on an 1943 whistler radio play. Chase a crooked shadow is a 1958 black and white film starring anne baxter, richard todd, herbert lom, alexander knox, and faith brook. Chase a crooked shadow 1958 tuesdays overlooked film. Anderson had a very long and fairly interesting career as a. Although, considering hitchcock was the foremost director of suspense during the period it must have been near impossible for other directors not to feel his influence.
Chase a crooked shadow 1958 01211958 us mystery, drama 1h 27m user score. The quest to chase this shadow appears to be an attempt to rid oneself of its loathsome presence. Sleep no more is a 1958 british suspense film starring richard todd, anne baxter and herbert lom. Chase a crooked shadow 1958 michael anderson, richard. Chase a crooked shadow 1958 chase a crooked shadow. The core formula for chase a crooked shadow has been well mined over the years, only recently i myself viewed the quite excellent hammer films production of paranoiac, which treads the same ground as andersons movie, but theres a filmic style here that adds further atmosphere to the moody mysterious tone of the narrative. A woman who lives in spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brothers identity. Before the film has run its course, we learn that the true villain is not necessarily whom it appears to benor is the heroine all that she seems. At kimberley prescotts villa, a stranger showsup and claims he is her brother who supposedly died the previous year in a car accident. Released in 1958, chase a crooked shadow reminded me very much of the british suspense pictures written by jimmy sangster for hammer films. Officer vargas herbert lom on spains costa brava, taking a call from emotionally fragile south african heiress kimberley anne baxter, trying to deal with richard todd, just arrived, insisting hes her brother, early in chase a crooked shadow, 1958. Chase a crooked shadow 1958 subtitles opensubtitles. Thelma daguilar, michael anderson, chase a crooked shadow.
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Chase a crooked shadow a great title is pretty entertaining. Chase a crooked shadow 1958 the arrival of her presumeddead brother richard todd drives an heiress anne baxter to the brink of insanity. Baxter plays an heiress, kimberly prescott, living abroad, whose dead brother todd turns up after being killed in a car accident a year earlier. Chase a crooked shadow movie tv showtimes if no channel is shown there may be no upcoming episodes of movie. With the exception of knox, who doesnt have much to do as the favored uncle, the principal characters swarm around each other with plausible and interlocking motivations.
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It stars richard todd, anne baxter, and herbert lom as a policeman. But like the skunk with the stink, the real problem is not the crooked shadow, but rather the entity that casts this crooked shadow. The reputation of chase a crooked shadow rests solely on its twist ending, which youll either think is very clever and just the right way to bring events to a close, or completely ridiculous and throwing up all sorts of questions that sabotage any logic the film might have enjoyed up until then. Michael anderson directed chase a crooked shadow, the first film produced by associated dragon films, a business venture of douglas fairbanks jr.