7.3
Vampyr
1932
“"Who am I? Am I a killer? Who are the women that love me?" I can't remember!”
Street of Chance (1942)
October 3, 19421h 14mEN
5.4
21 votes
Overview
In this Cornell Woolrich thriller, a man's memory is recovered after being injured by falling construction material. Discovering a year-long lapse, he returns to his old life and discovers a lot of mysterious happenings.
Director
Jack HivelyWriters
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
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Production Companies
Paramount Pictures
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User Reviews
John Chard
6.5As luck would have it… Street of Chance is directed by Jack Hively and adapted to screenplay by Garrett Fort from the novel "The Black Curtain" written by Cornell Woolrich. It stars Burgess Meredith, Claire Trevor, Louise Platt, Sheldon Leonard, Frieda Inescort and Jerome Cowan. Music is by David Buttolph and cinematography by Theodor Sparkuhl. After being felled by falling wreckage from a New York building, Frank Thompson (Meredith) awakes in the street to find he has some sort of amnesia and his life may not be as he thought. As he starts to piece together his life he comes to reali…
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CinemaSerf
6.0The complexities of the plot don’t readily make for a succinct summary but the interweaving stories of “Frank” and “Danny” (Burgess Meredith) make themselves pretty clear from the mysterious outset. It’s “Frank” who narrowly avoids some falling masonry only to awaken in hospital with what appears to be a completely different identity. Inexplicably pursued by a strange man (Sheldon Leonard), he visits his erstwhile home only to find his wife “Virginia” (Louise Platt) had moved on over a year ago. When he finally tracks her down, she is shocked to see him and that’s just the first shock as his m…
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