Richard Todd
Ward Prescott
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In her family's Spanish villa, Kimberly Prescott, a young South African heiress of a diamond company, is grieving after her father's recent suicide, when she is taken aback by the arrival of a man claiming to be her brother Ward, believed to have died in a car accident a few months ago.
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.
- (1.5K)
- Crime, Mystery, Thriller
- Michael Anderson
- 1958-04-19
The reputation of Chase a Crooked Shadow rests solely on its twist ending, which you'll 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
- 1958
- Thriller
Nov 19, 2014 · Surprisingly, this is a crooked shadow you’ll end up chasing with several subtle red herrings. Yes, this man isn’t Ward, but what are his motivations? Is he a spy?
May 28, 2018 · In the case of Chase a Crooked Shadow, it's a nice twist but the film tips its hand a little with its opening scene. Producer Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. appears just before the final credits to ask viewers not to reveal the film's ending to those who haven't seen it yet.
Both the premise and the payoff are unsettling: Kimberly Prescott (Anne Baxter), a wealthy heiress of a South African diamond fortune who lives alone in her family’s villa on the Spanish coast, is visited by a young man (Richard Todd) who claims to be her dead brother Ward, who had driven his car off a cliff three months earlier.
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In Chase a Crooked Shadow, Fairbanks makes a rare cameo appearance as himself at the end, urging audiences not to reveal the "surprise" ending of the film.
