
The Lodger(1944)
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.


“The Man Hunts the Girl... The Girl Hunts the Man...”
A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.

Richard Todd
Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr.

Anne Baxter
Kimberley Prescott

Herbert Lom
Police Commissar Vargas

Faith Brook
Elaine Whitman

Alan Tilvern
Carlos

Alexander Knox
Chandler Bridson

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Self - Epilogue (uncredited)
Thelma D'Aguiar
Maria
Chase a Crooked Shadow is a thriller, mystery, drama film released in 1958 exploring themes of spain, villa, brother, film noir, inheritance, british noir. Directed by Michael Anderson, it stars Richard Todd, Anne Baxter, Herbert Lom. A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.
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