An independent production The Chase is one of the most peculiar of 1940s movies. Man hooks up with crime boss's wife and they plan to flee to Havana - so far so noir. But then it becomes really peculiar. Why won't the driver take them further? When the woman (Michele Morgan) is stabbed in a nightclub how come no one seems to notice? And when the fugitive Robert Cummings hides in the room of a mysterious girl, why is she crying? And what's all this business with the Chinese and a jade handled knife?
Philip Yordan's adaptation of a Cornell Woolrich novel 'The Black Path of Fear' (1944) is dreamlike from the moment where Steve Cochran's door is answered through an inverted cherub. With Peter Lorre. Shot by 'Frank' Planer with a pianoy score by Michel Michelet.
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