Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958)


Warner Bros.
Directed by Michael Anderson
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)

Anne Baxter comes home one day to her remote Spanish villa to find a stranger claiming to be her dead brother. Soon he's taken over the household with a butler and girlfriend. She goes to the police, but he's got forged papers and covered every detail down to the tattoo. They are after a stash of diamonds she hid in a bank and soon resort to thinly veiled death threats. An excellent script with a plot twist I absolutely did not see coming. Producer Douglas Fairbanks appears on screen at the end to implore the audience not to give away the twist.

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