Word: amnesia
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...uncommonly nice idea for a cinemystery - since the audience shares Meredith's amnesia, not only people but streets, windows, and noises can be loaded with cryptic threats. If those who made the picture had used these possibilities for all, instead of merely half, their worth, Street of Chance would have equaled Alfred Hitchcock's best scarifying tours-de-force. Street of Chance does not reach that high standard...
...something to do with William Powell's rising from the oblivion of permanent amnesia to become a high-ranking French diplomat. And then there's an attempt to prove that in his preamnesia days he was a murderer and a rat who even double-crossed his partners in crime, and sometimes you get the idea that he really was this mythical other man, and all the time you hope it turns out that he was, just to see what the rules say about punishing Dr. Jekyll for something Mr. Hyde did. But either being thoroughly stumped or just plain having...
...TOAST To TOMORROW-Manning Coles-Crime Club ($2). The deputy chief of the German Police in 1933 recovers from amnesia to remember he is actually Hambledon of British Intelligence in World War I. Thereafter "Klaus Lehmann" spies to end all spying, raises hell with German war plans. Timely, well done and not very corny...
TRAITOR'S PURSE-Margery Alllngham -Crime Club ($2). Daffy from a copper's clout, Albert Campion sheds his amnesia in time's nick, saves England from civil commotion. Present are Manservant Lugg and Lady Amanda Fritton, Campion's fiancee. Another of Margery Allingham's well-made, well-mannered British stories...
Good shot: Powell arriving back at his home town of Habersville. Pa. after his recovery from amnesia. When his mother-in-law, whom he fails to recognize, rushes to embrace him in front of the crowd at the station, he points to Miss Loy, whispers confidentially: "Ixnay! The wife...