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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.
Worried that she may never work again, Leslie signed a two-picture deal with Eagle-Lion Films in 1947. Her first film for the poverty row studio was a noir drama with a time-travel twist titled Repeat Performance; it would be the studio’s biggest budgeted feature to date.
Feb 23, 2022 · Review: Repeat Performance (1947) February 23, 2022. The "supernatural noir" is a rare breed. By nature, Film Noir tends to focus on humanity's fears and foibles, with the central characters either caught in circumstances beyond their control or trapped in a web of their own making.
Repeat Performance. 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 ...
REPEAT PERFORMANCE remains one of the most haunting of film noir set in a most unusual "noir-ish" setting - the Broadway theater. It is distinguished by a superb cast, all the more wondrous considering that it was made by Eagle Lion. But its most extraordinary gift is JOAN LESLIE.
Repeat Performance is directed by Alfred Werker and adapted to screenplay by Walter Bullock from the novel written by William O'Farrell. It stars Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Tom Conway, Richard Basehart, Virginia Field and Natalie Schafer. Music is by George Antheil and cinematography by L. William O'Connell.
Synopsis. Time stopped in its tracks… when she pulled the trigger! 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. Remove Ads.
