Street of Chance

Street of Chance

1942
1h 14m
A man has an accident at work, returns home and is told by his wife that he has been missing for a year. The original noir amnesia story, which was also the first adaptation of a Cornell Woolrich novel.
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Street of Chance

1942
1h 14m
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Rated 01 Dec 2012
64
15th
The amnesia setup is dumb, and the resolution to it is equally so. It also takes a lot of time trawling through the tedium of underdeveloped plot strands and an uninteresting crime. Despite all the flaws it has Claire Trevor giving a strong performance and just enough mystery to it to make it a decent but eminently forgettable way to spend an hour.
Rated 29 May 2011
47
7th
You gotta have some really good stuff to rise above the dumbness of an amnesia plot. And this movie does not have really good stuff, it's rather banal. Ho-hum performances, sloppy plotting, a predictable resolution, no real tension and no sense of atmosphere. Mildly entertaining at best, and pretty much forgettable. The one thing that made this interesting is that I watched it not long after Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and this movie also has a mute character who communicates by blinking.
Rated 07 Nov 2018
60
89th
I liked Street of Chance (1942). Still early days when it came to classic film-noir, and the genre would be done a lot better, but Burgess Meredith with amnesia was one of the few proper noir titles to come out in 1942, a style which would grow itself strong as the 1940s progressed. A gradual solved puzzle as to what kind of man he was, with his inner thoughts coming over the the searching scenes. I wouldn't say the climax was all that interesting, but following Meredith's trail was interesting.
Rated 22 Nov 2021
30
15th
Recommended by film expert Eddie Muller as a reversal of the amnesia trope, but the plot doesn't have any tension. It plods along until an almost deus ex machina ending where the killer is identified in a drawn out communication with a mute invalid grandma. Totally forgettable, so I look forward to an eventual blu-ray release when it's hyped up as a one-of-a-kind film noir and I'll buy it for $25 like a fool, since it'll have a booklet and slipcover. Fav scene: meeting Louise Platt's Virginia.
Rated 04 Sep 2022
70
42nd
This really early film noir has an intriguing set up, a nice mystery with a couple of interesting twists, and a fairly underwhelming conclusion. Still ... the mystery hinges on a paralyzed woman blinking while Meredith shouts out the alphabet. That's pure entertainment. I can also never get enough Sheldon Leonard.

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