Street of Chance

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This is an article for the 1942 film. See Street of Chance (1930 film) for the film starring William Powell.

Street of Chance
Street of Chance movie poster
Directed by	Jack Hively
Produced by	Sol C. Siegel
Written by	Cornell Woolrich (novel The Black Curtain) Garrett Fort
Starring	Burgess Meredith Claire Trevor
Music by	David Buttolph
Cinematography	Theodor Sparkuhl
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	October 3, 1942 (U.S. release)
Running time	74 min.
Language	English
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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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Cast

Actor	Role
Burgess Meredith	Frank Thompson aka Danny Nearing
Claire Trevor	Ruth Dillon
Louise Platt	Virginia Thompson
Sheldon Leonard	Detective Joe Marruci
Frieda Inescort	Alma Diedrich
Jerome Cowan	Bill Diedrich