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The Chase (1946)

19461h 25mdir. Arthur RipleyUnited Statesfilm noir

With Robert Cummings, Michèle Morgan, Steve Cochran, Peter Lorre, Jack Holt, Don Wilson, James Westerfield, Lloyd Corrigan

Directed by Arthur Ripley

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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.

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