Chase A Crooked Shadow which was filmed in Spain and produced by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. has Anne Baxter as a rich heiress living in the family villa which is her's free and clear due to the deaths of her father and brother a year earlier. All seems well enough when Richard Todd shows up claiming to be her brother. Well and good, but when the household staff and her uncle Alexander Knox all accept him as the brother she identified as dead after an automobile crash in South Africa, Baxter thinks she's heading for the rubber room. She also gets little sympathy from the local police in the person of Herbert Lom.
There's also the matter of a fortune in diamonds that was stolen from the company where father made his millions. Another mystery as yet unsolved.
So just who is the bad one in this film? That you won't know until the very end when as the Belgian sleuth always says 'all will be revealed'.
Charles Boyer did not do a neater job of gaslighting Ingrid Bergman than Todd is doing to Anne Baxter. Both the stars do well, but the underlying reason for this particular gambit is a bit far fetched for my taste.
There's also the matter of a fortune in diamonds that was stolen from the company where father made his millions. Another mystery as yet unsolved.
So just who is the bad one in this film? That you won't know until the very end when as the Belgian sleuth always says 'all will be revealed'.
Charles Boyer did not do a neater job of gaslighting Ingrid Bergman than Todd is doing to Anne Baxter. Both the stars do well, but the underlying reason for this particular gambit is a bit far fetched for my taste.