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Chase a Crooked Shadow (a.k.a. Sleep No More) is a 1958 British suspense film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Richard Todd, Anne Baxter and Herbert Lom. It was the first film produced by Associated Dragon Films, a business venture of Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Brief Synopsis. A man shows up at a woman's villa claiming to be her presumably deceased brother.
Chase a Crooked Shadow: Directed by Michael Anderson. With Richard Todd, Anne Baxter, Herbert Lom, Alexander Knox. At Kimberley Prescott's villa, a stranger shows up and claims he is her brother who supposedly died the previous year in a car accident.
Chase a Crooked Shadow is directed by Michael Anderson and written by David D. Osborn and Charles Sinclair. It stars Richard Todd, Anne Baxter, Herbert Lom and Faith Brook. Music is scored by Matyas Seiber, with additional guitar by Julian Bream, and cinematography by Erwin Hillier.
From the opening credits against a slowly spinning weathervane of a boy and girl chasing each other for eternity, Michael Anderson’s Chase a Crooked Shadow announces itself as a thoughtful depiction of sibling rivalry in a glossy noir package. Both the premise and the payoff are unsettling: Kimberly Prescott (Anne Baxter), a wealthy heiress ...
Jul 7, 2018 · Why does he claim to be her long-lost brother? Is Todd planning to finagle Baxter out of her inheritance? Is someone going to end up seriously dead? The answers to these questions can be found in Chase a Crooked Shadow, a confounding chiller with more than a few adroit plot twists.
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A South African heiress (Anne Baxter) begins to doubt her sanity when a man (Richard Todd) arrives claiming to be her brother, who was believed dead several months before, in Michael Anderson’s mystery thriller.
