The story's intricacies don't lend themselves easily to a brief explanation, yet the connected narratives of “Frank” and “Danny” (Burgess Meredith) become understandable fairly early on due to the puzzling beginning. It is “Frank” who barely escapes some falling debris, only to wake up in the hospital seemingly as someone else entirely. He’s strangely hunted by an odd man (Sheldon Leonard), and when he goes back to h…

Street of Chance comes from director Jack Hively, with a screenplay by Garrett Fort based on Cornell Woolrich’s "The Black Curtain." Burgess Meredith leads the cast alongside Claire Trevor, Louise Platt, Sheldon Leonard, Frieda Inescort and Jerome Cowan; David Buttolph handled the music and Theodor Sparkuhl was responsible for the cinematography. Following an accident involving falling debris from a New York build…