The Chase (1946)

Directed by

Arthur Ripley

Genre

film noir

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 26m

Rated

U

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 71 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A veteran with hallucinations returns a wallet to a violent mobster and gets hired as a chauffeur. He gets pulled into a scheme to help the mobster's wife escape to Havana.

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What happens

The Chase is a 1946 American film noir directed by Arthur Ripley. The screenplay by Philip Yordan is based on Cornell Woolrich's 1944 novel The Black Path of Fear. It stars Robert Cummings as Chuck Scott, a veteran who has hallucinations. When he returns a lost wallet to violent mobster Eddie Roman (Steve Cochran), Eddie offers to hire him as a chauffeur. Chuck becomes mixed up in a plot to help Eddie's wife Lorna (Michèle Morgan) run off to Havana to escape her cruel husband. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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