Street of Chance

:"This is an article for the 1942 film. See Street of Chance (1930 film) for the film starring William Powell."Infobox Film | name =Street of Chance


caption =Street of Chance movie poster
director = Jack Hively
producer = Sol C. Siegel
writer = Cornell Woolrich (novel The Black Curtain)
Garrett Fort
starring =Burgess Meredith
Claire Trevor
Louise Platt
music = David Buttolph
cinematography = Theodor Sparkuhl
editing =
distributor = Paramount Pictures
released = October 3, 1942 (U.S. release)
runtime = 74 min.
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0035388

"Street of Chance" is a 1942 film starring Burgess Meredith as a man who finds he's been suffering from amnesia and Claire Trevor as a woman who protects him from the police, who suspect him of murder.

The story was based on Cornell Woolrich's novel "The Black Curtain". It was later dramatized several times on the radio series "Suspense".

Plot

Frank Thompson (Burgess Meredith), awakens in the middle of the street, after wreckage falling from a building in New York City hits him in the head. Frank soon discovers that his apartment has been rented out for a year and his wife Virginia has been living on her own elsewhere. Frank confronts Virginia (Louise Platt), who is shocked to see the husband who disappeared without explanation a year earlier. As Frank slowly pieces together his old life, it turns out he is running from a murder he cannot remember committing, and only an old, paralyzed woman can clear him.

Cast