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Repeat Performance is a 1947 American film noir (with fantasy elements) starring Louis Hayward and Joan Leslie. The film was released by Eagle-Lion Films, directed by Alfred L. Werker, and produced by Aubrey Schenck . Plot. On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page is standing over her dead husband Barney with a gun in her hand.
- $600,000 or $1.3 million
- Aubrey Schenck
Repeat Performance: Directed by Alfred L. Werker. With Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field, Tom Conway. On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year.
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- Crime, Drama, Fantasy
- Alfred L. Werker
- 1947-09-15
Film Length. 8,230ft (10 reels) On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.
- Alfred Werker, Robert Stillman
- Louis Hayward
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Summaries. On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated. Sheila kills her husband at the start of the film with a smoking gun. We don't know how or why.
Dec 20, 2023. Rated: 3.5/4 • Jun 12, 2022. Rated: B • Jan 1, 2020. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. A Broadway star (Joan Leslie) kills her husband (Louis Hayward) on New Year's...
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- Alfred L. Werker
- Drama
- Joan Leslie, Louis Hayward, Richard Basehart
A superior Poverty Row production from Eagle-Lion Studios, it's imaginatively scripted, played with gusto and never less than fascinating a curio, film noir in a sci-fi time loop. On New Year's Eve, 1947, Joan Leslie shoots and kills her husband, Louis Hayward.
Directed by Alfred L. Werker • 1947 • United States Starring Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field Something like film noir’s answer to IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, or a full-length precursor to THE TWILIGHT ZONE, this amazingly original hybrid of film noir, supernatural fantasy, and backstage melodrama casts Joan Leslie as a Broadway performer ...