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Bookmark this pageCrossroads (1942)
Director: Jack Conway
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From Time Out Film Guide
Hollywood's cannibalisation of the 1939 French psychological thriller Carrefour, here developed along lighter lines to match Powell's Thin Man image. He plays a happily married diplomat who, on the eve of an ambassadorial appointment, finds himself being blackmailed as a supposed former crook (amnesia has conveniently left a hole in his memory), and confronted by proof in the form of a confederate, a mistress and a mother. It emerges as a typical MGM confection, but the cast remains very watchable.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Jack Conway
Producer: Edwin Knopf
Cast: William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Basil Rathbone, Claire Trevor, Margaret Wycherly, Felix Bressart full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 84 mins
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