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Overview

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Director:
Michael Anderson
Writers:
David D. Osborn (writer)
Charles Sinclair (writer)
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Release Date:
6 May 1958 (Japan) more
Genre:
Mystery | Thriller more
Plot:
A man shows up at Kimberley Prescott's villa claiming to be her brother. But Ward Prescott died in a car accident a year ago... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
They don't make them like that, anymore ! more

Cast

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Richard Todd ... Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr.

Anne Baxter ... Kimberley Prescott

Herbert Lom ... Police Commissar Vargas
Faith Brook ... Elaine Whitman
Alexander Knox ... Chandler Brisson (Uncle Chan)
Alan Tilvern ... Carlos
Thelma D'Aguilar ... Maria
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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:87 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Finland:K-16

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
'Marcel Dailo' was a possible for Vargas. more
Goofs:
Continuity: While Ward accepts Kimberley's challenge and drives round the bends, the odometer of the car barely changes from 17858 to 17859 - implying they covered a distance of 1 mile (or km). Considering the speed at which Ward drove and the time it took, the entire distance covered to be a paltry 1 mile (or km) is implausible. more

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9 out of 10 people found the following comment useful:-
They don't make them like that, anymore !, 10 October 2002
Author: frankatcccp from Donegal, Ireland

When I was a little boy, I had seen the film, but remembered little of it. However, in the early sixties, my Dad took me on a holiday to Spain, to a little village south of Barcelona, called Sitges. During one coach journey, the courier told us that the mountain road that we were now on was the scene of a fast car drive in a film made a couple of years previously, called 'Chase a Crooked Shadow'. I remember the road well, with the cliff drops hundreds of feet below to the sea and this coupled with my fond memory of that holiday in Franco's long gone Spain and the fact that the film itself is a brilliant piece of old cinema with a terrific twist at the end, makes me watch this film over and over again. I see something in it every time I watch it - the sign of a good film!

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