Julian Bream. Reception Chase a Crooked Shadow received mixed reviews. Bosley Crowther in his review for The New York Times considered the plot as overly complex and torturous but that the melodrama was "nothing amazing, and neither is this film. It's just a moderately well-done program picture, endowed with a couple of standard thrills".Leonard Maltin awarded the film three out of four stars, calling it an "exciting, Hitchcock-like melodrama". RemakesChase a Crooked Shadow was remade in India a few times, as the Bengali-language film Sesh Anka (1963), the Tamil-language film Puthiya Paravai (1964), the Hindi-language film Dhuan (1981), and the Malayalam-language films 'Rahasyam,' Prem Naseer starrer, 'Ithile Vannavar' of Madhu and Charithram (1989) The earlier two Indian films later served as an inspiration for the French play Piège pour un homme seul (Trap for a Lonely Man) by Robert Thomas. The play served as the source material for various television films such as Honeymoon with a Stranger and One of My Wives Is Missing that originally aired on ABC Movie of the Week, as well as Vanishing Act that originally aired on CBS. The 2019 Malaysian film Misteri Dilaila is also loosely based on these films. The movie was also an inspiration for the 1989 Hindi move Khoj which was remade in Telugu as Police Report and in Kannada as Agni Sakshi. A stage adaptation of the original British film, called Double Cut and written by Alfred Shaughnessy, was first staged at the Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead in 1984, with Simon Williams and Lucy Fleming in the leads, prior to touring the UK the following year with David Griffin and Tessa Wyatt. References Notes Bibliography Bawden, James and Ron Miller. Conversations with Classic Film Stars: Interviews from Hollywood's Golden Era''. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2016. . External links 1958 films 1950s mystery films 1950s English-language films British black-and-white films British mystery thriller films Films shot at Associated British Studios Films directed by Michael Anderson Films set in Spain Films shot in Barcelona 1950s British films