Top billed cast

1. 

   Richard Todd

   Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr.

2. 

   Anne Baxter

   Kimberley Prescott

3. 

   Herbert Lom

   Police Commissar Vargas

4. 

   Faith Brook

   Elaine Whitman

5. 

   Alan Tilvern

   Carlos

6. 

   Alexander Knox

   Chandler Bridson

7. 

   Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

   Self - Epilogue (uncredited)

8. 

   Thelma D'Aguiar

   Maria

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on 2020-05-24

Who is hunting who?

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.

A man shows up at Kimberley Prescott's Spanish villa claiming to be her brother. Trouble is is that her brother, Ward Prescott, died in a car accident a year ago...

The core formula for Chase a Crooked Shadow has been well mined over the years, only recently I myself viewed the quite e...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• spain
• villa
• brother
• film noir
• inheritance
• british noir
• stranger