Directed by:
Jack B. HivelyScreenplay:
Garrett FortCinematography:
Theodor SparkuhlComposer:
David ButtolphCast:
Burgess Meredith, Claire Trevor, Sheldon Leonard, Frieda Inescort, Jerome Cowan, Louise Platt, Arthur Loft, Ann Doran, Cliff Clark, Gladden James, Harry Tyler (more)Plots(1)
Based on Cornell Woolrich's novel The Black Curtain (later dramatized several times on the radio series Suspense), Street of Chance top-bills Burgess Meredith as an amnesia victim. He awakens in the middle of the street, with nary a clue of who he is or what he's done. Meredith comes to learn that his past year of darkness has been a crowded one--and that he might be a murderer! Louise Platt plays Meredith's wife, but it's total stranger Claire Trevor who seems most interested in probing Meredith's past. Street of Chance is worth spending 74 minutes with, even though the true identity of the killer becomes obvious halfway through. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Burgess Meredith
USA
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Claire Trevor
USA
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Sheldon Leonard
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Frieda Inescort
UK
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Jerome Cowan
USA
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Louise Platt
USA
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Arthur Loft
USA
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Ann Doran
USA
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Cliff Clark
USA
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Gladden James
USA
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Harry Tyler
USA
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Milton Kibbee
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Sonny Boy Williams
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Clancy Cooper
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Ralph Dunn
USA
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Edwin Maxwell
Ireland
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Paul Phillips
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Adeline De Walt Reynolds
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Kernan Cripps
USA
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Ruth Gillette
USA
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