Chase a Crooked Shadow (a.k.a. Sleep No More) is a 1958 British suspense film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Richard Todd, Anne Baxter and Herbert Lom. [1] It was the first film produced by Associated Dragon Films, a business venture of Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Chase a Crooked Shadow: Directed by Michael Anderson. With Richard Todd, Anne Baxter, Herbert Lom, Alexander Knox. At Kimberley Prescott's villa, a stranger shows up and claims he is her brother who supposedly died the previous year in a car accident.

William Sylvester and Hugh McDermott joined Anne Baxter in this stage play. Shortly after returning to Hollywood, Anne Baxter met her second husband Randolph Gait and then, between 1960 and 1963, she abandoned her film career to live on a ranch in the remote Australian outback. She described the experience in her book, Intermission: A True Story.

"Chase a Crooked Shadow" is a 1958 black and white film starring Anne Baxter, Richard Todd, Herbert Lom, Alexander Knox, and Faith Brook. Baxter plays an heiress, Kimberly Prescott, living abroad, whose dead brother (Todd) turns up after being killed in a car accident a year earlier.

Aug 27, 2020 · Here’s a nifty Hitchcock like thriller that sees Anne Baxter as a young woman confronted with the reappearance of her brother one year after she identified his body in the morgue following a car accident.

May 28, 2018 · After a late night engagement, diamond heiress Kimberly Prescott (Anne Baxter) returns to her Spanish villa to be greeted by her brother Ward. Kimberly is stunned...you see, Ward died in a car accident and Kim identified his corpse.

Are they actually conspiring to rob this seemingly victimized heiress of every teeny diamond she owns? The way they creep up behind her and refuse to leave her alone, even to haunting her in her...

Both the premise and the payoff are unsettling: Kimberly Prescott (Anne Baxter), a wealthy heiress of a South African diamond fortune who lives alone in her family’s villa on the Spanish coast, is visited by a young man (Richard Todd) who claims to be her dead brother Ward, who had driven his car off a cliff three months earlier.

Chase a Crooked Shadow follows a woman residing in Spain who struggles to persuade others that a stranger has assumed her deceased brother's identity. Released in 1958, this suspenseful narrative explores themes of identity and mistrust within a tense psychological framework.

Heiress Kimberley Prescott (Anne Baxter) has recently suffered the suicide of her diamond mine-owning millionaire father, and has retreated to the family villa in Barcelona. However, one night she has another shock: her racing driver brother Ward …