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CrimeYear1953Duration1h 22mIMDb5.9

Second Chance

CrimeDramaFilm-Noir

Mobster Vic Spalato's ex-girlfriend Clare is in hiding in Mexico and she's willing to testify for a US Senate investigation committee, if she can make it back to the US alive.

Trailer

Cast

Rudolph Maté

Director

Robert Mitchum

Russ Lambert

Jack Palance

Cappy Gordon

Linda Darnell

Clare Shepperd, alias Clare Sinclair

Sandro Giglio

Cable Car Conductor

Rodolfo Hoyos Jr.

Vasco

Reginald Sheffield

Mr. Woburn

Margaret Brewster

Mrs. Woburn

Roy Roberts

Charley Malloy

SB

Salvador Baguez

Officer Hernandez

MJ

Maurice Jara

Fernando

Judy Walsh

Maria

Dan Seymour

Felipe

Fortunio Bonanova

Mandy

Milburn Stone

Edward Dawson

Abel Fernandez

Rivera

LA

Luis Alvarez

A Hotel Clerk

Oscar Millard

Writer

SB

Sydney Boehm

Writer

DM

D.M. Marshman Jr.

Writer

Robert Presnell Sr.

Writer

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7 Comments

#FAKHARMay 30, 2023

Sarthak BhetwalMay 29, 2023

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Isoka 🥷Nov 18, 2022

its.verdexNov 16, 2022

Second Chance

ShailynOfficialNov 16, 2022

Pretty good suspense-noir-romance in 3D, not quite an A and not quite a B, with prizefighter Robert Mitchum agonizing over having killed a rival in the ring (shades of Golden Boy) while he pursues moll Linda Darnell, who is pursued by amorous hit man Jack Palance, all running around streets in unnamed Mexican tourist towns. The racial stereotyping is a bit thick, and the screenplay isn't exactly overflowing with fresh situations or good lines. But there's plenty of local color, and an exciting climax aboard a disabled cable car. The stunts are impressive, Darnell's typically beautiful, and Bob Mitchum doing his sexy-laconic-sarcastic thing was always something to behold.

user3596820304353Nov 16, 2022

Rather dire star-vehicle for Robert Mitchum and Linda Darnell. Gangster's girl in South America, anxious to turn herself over to the police and release incriminating evidence to Washington officials against her boyfriend, instead finds herself on the run from the mobster's murderous stooge (whom she's also apparently been involved with!). She uses a smitten professional boxer from the States to get the thug off her tail, but he's relentless and they all end up in a crippled cable car suspended perilously over the valley. Muddled script by Oscar Millard and Sydney Boehm, from D.M. Marshman Jr.'s original treatment, makes a particular mess of the relationship between breathless Darnell and good-guy Mitchum (she's such a complete blank anyway, it's confounding why Mitchum would even give her the time of day). The climax is well-directed (if visually unconvincing), there's a colorful wedding celebration with fireworks, and Jack Palance is a menacing heavy. ** from ****

❣️Khalid & Salama❣️Nov 16, 2022

The long climax of this film occurs in a stranded cable car high over the mountains of a fictional Latin American vacationers' paradise; without benefit of the 3-D process in which the movie was originally shot, it seems fairly routine, even for its day. Beyond that, the film can be considered "noir" only by the most generous definition. It's basically a south-of-the-border romantic adventure between prizefighter Robert Mitchum and bad-girl-gone-good Linda Darnell, with Jack Palance as (of course) the heavy. Not a total waste of time if you find it on TV and have not much else to do, but definitely nothing to go out of your way for (and I've seen out-of-print videos going for $70!).

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