Repeat Performance (1947)
3.5 of 5 from 48 ratings
1h 33min
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- Synopsis:
On New Year's Eve, Sheila Page (Joan Leslie) runs desperately out of a penthouse apartment and into the Times Square crowd. She has reason to flee - she has just shot and killed her husband Barney (Louis Hayward). Through a freakish wrinkle in time, Sheila is transported back to the last New Year's and is allowed to relive the past year all over again. This time she is forearmed with the knowledge of the murder and does everything she can to avoid the deed - a task made difficult by such antagonists as her nasty husband and her emotionally disturbed brother William Williams (Richard Basehart, in his film debut). Events lead inexorably to the murder... but will she do it this time? Cleverly assembled, and with a more expensive cast and budget than was usual for pinchpenny Eagle-Lion studios, 'Repeat Performance' is a brisk and absorbing semi-fantasy. It was remade for television as Turn Back the Clock (89), with the original film's star Joan Leslie in a brief cameo role. - Actors:
- Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field, Tom Conway, Richard Basehart, Natalie Schafer, Benay Venuta, Ilka Grüning, John Alban, Keefe Brasselle, Ralph Brooks, Jean Del Val, Abe Dinovitch, John Dutriz, Dick Gordon, Alf Haugan, Leyland Hodgson, Patrick Hurst, Mike Lally, Raymond Largay
- Directors:
- Alfred L. Werker
- Producers:
- Aubrey Schenck
- Narrated By:
- John Ireland
- Writers:
- Walter Bullock, William O'Farrell
- Studio:
- FLICKER ALLEY
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- Unknown
- Run Time:
- 93 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Introduction to 'Repeat Performance' - by author, film historian, and "noirchaeologist" Eddie Muller
- Profile of actress Joan Leslie - by author and film historian Farran Smith Nehme
- "Eagle-Lion: A Noir-Stained Legacy" - a documentary by Steven C. Smith, narrated by author and film historian Alan K. Rode
- Audio Commentary Track - by film historian Nora Fiore ("The Nitrate Diva")
- Promotional Pressbook - a digital edition of the film's original 1947 pressbook
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