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Street of Chance is a 1942 American film noir mystery film directed by Jack Hively and starring Burgess Meredith as a man who finds he has been suffering from amnesia and Claire Trevor as a woman who protects him from the police, who suspect him of murder.
Street of Chance: Directed by Jack Hively. With Burgess Meredith, Claire Trevor, Louise Platt, Sheldon Leonard. After an accident, a New York man with amnesia finds out the ugly truth about his real identity and past by interacting with people who seem to know him well.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Jack Hively
- 1942-10-03
Street of Chance is a 1942 American film noir mystery film directed by Jack Hively and starring Burgess Meredith as a man who finds he has been suffering fro...
- 74 min
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Street of Chance. After Frank Thompson (Burgess Meredith) recovers from a head injury, he is shocked to discover that a year has passed, and that he's wanted by detective Joe Marucci (Sheldon...
- Mystery & Thriller
- Jack Hively
- Dennis Schwartz
After nearly being flattened by detritus plummeting from a skyscraper, a mild-mannered man discovers that he's wanted for murder. Frank Thompson regains consciousness in the street, believing it's his lucky day after escaping death.
One in a relatively small group of “amnesia noir” films, Jack Hively’s Street of Chance is unmistakably from the pen of Cornell Woolrich, whose fiction inspired more noir films than any other author and whose themes spanned doomed romance, class conflict, and alienation in all its forms. Woolrich was particularly talented at revealing the ...
Synopsis, historical analysis, personnel profiles, contemporary reviews, and discussion of the film Street of Chance, released in 1942 by Paramount Pictures, starring Burgess Meredith, Claire Trevor, Louise Pratt, Sheldon Leonard and Frieda Inescort, and directed by Jack Hively.
