Chase a Crooked Shadow

Chase a Crooked Shadow - 1957 | 87mins | Mystery, Thriller | B&W

The Production Team

Director: Michael Anderson.
Producer: Thomas Clyde and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Script: David D. Osborn and Charles Sinclair.
Cinematography: Erwin Hillier.
Editing: Gordon Pilkington.
Art Direction: Paul Sheriff.
Costume Design: Anthony Mendleson.
Makeup Department: Jim Hydes and A.G. Scott.
Sound: Herbert J. Bird, A.W. Lumkin and Len Shilton.
Original Music: Matyas Seiber.

The Cast

Richard Todd - Williams/Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr.
Anne Baxter - Kimberley Prescott
Herbert Lom - Police Commissar Vargas
Faith Brook - Elaine Whitman
Alexander Knox - Chandler Brisson
Alan Tilvern - Carlos
Thelma D'Aguilar - Maria

Plot Synopsis

Chase a Crooked Shadow is a ridiculously mystifying vintage thriller that succeeds in holding the viewers attention through a succession of adroit plot twists until a totally unexpected conclusion.

Returning to her Costa Brava villa, a recuperating neurotic heiress, Kim (Anne Baxter), fears for her sanity and her safety when a man (Richard Todd) arrives at her home claiming to be her long-lost brother. Her father had committed suicide and the year before her brother was killed in a car accident. The impostor’s act is so convincing that the police chief (Herbert Lom) does not take her worries seriously. When her sinister uncle (Alexander Knox) also accepts the stranger, the heiress suspects that she and her diamonds are the target of a conspiracy.