Leofwine_draca Review of Chase a Crooked Shadow

Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958)

Clever psycho thriller with a decent cast

[6/10 · 18 December 2017]

CHASE A CROOKED SHADOW is a low budget British crime thriller with a simple plot well brought to the screen. Anne Baxter plays a lonely woman living in a big villa who is visited by a stranger who claims to be her brother, previously thought dead. The man assimilates himself into her life, gradually sending her over the edge, while friends and associates refuse to believe that he's not who he claims to be. This very much plays out as a psycho-thriller like the many such films that Hammer Films made during the 1960s (A TASTE OF FEAR, for example). The writing is clever and literate, successfully building to a twist climax that you won't see coming despite all the guesswork you'll be putting in. Richard Todd and Herbert Lom make up the excellent little cast.