Chase a Crooked Shadow

The Man Hunts the Girl... The Girl Hunts the Man...

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A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.

Released: Jan 16, 1958

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Richard Todd

Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr.

Anne Baxter

Kimberley Prescott

Herbert Lom

Police Commissar Vargas

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