the first of the two emergency lifts, but, before Clare and others can board it, Cappy suddenly grabs a police handgun and wounds the officer. He then attempts to board the lift, taking only himself and Clare, but Lambert attacks him. Cappy and Lambert then fight until, finally, one of Lambert's expert punches sends Cappy tumbling over the railing to his death. The remaining passengers board the two aerial lifts and get away seconds before the cable parts, dropping the cable car into the abyss. Cast Robert Mitchum as Russ Lambert Linda Darnell as Clare Shepperd, alias Clare Sinclair Jack Palance as Cappy Gordon, alias Mr. Walters Roy Roberts as Charley Malloy Dan Seymour as Felipe, manager of a bar Fortunio Bonanova as Mandy, hotel owner Sandro Giglio as Cable Car Conductor Reginald Sheffield as Mr. Woburn, English tourist Margaret Brewster as Mrs. Woburn, English tourist Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. as Vasco, murderous husband Richard Vera as Pablo, Vasco's son Maurice Jara as Fernando, groom Judy Walsh as Maria, bride Salvador Baguez as Officer Hernandez Milburn Stone as Edward Dawson, Vic Spilato's bookkeeper Abel Fernández as Rivera, a boxer from San Cristóbal Background Second Chance is RKO Radio's first foray into the world of 3-D film, a prevalent cinema fad in the 1950s, and it featured their top stars. Bad guy Jack Palance is fresh from his critically well-regarded work on Shane (1953). The picture is also the first Hollywood 3-D feature shot on a foreign location. Critic Jeff Stafford believes the 3-D format was often unjustly maligned and in the early 1950s, was on the verge of "moving beyond the exploitable 'in your face' aspects" into more creative uses of the technology when the fad died. He makes the case that the final scenes of Second Chance were "much more intense in 3-D when the depth of field and spatial relationships create[d] a genuine sense of vertigo." According to critic Bosley Crowther, the screenplay was inspired by an aerial tramway accident that occurred in Rio de Janeiro circa 1951. Crowther wrote, "Except for one man being killed in an attempt to go for help via a rope and the slugging melee on the platform, this could almost be the Rio episode." Filming locations The film was shot entirely in Mexico, including: Cuernavaca, Morelos and Taxco, Guerrero. Reception Critical response Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, was not