The Chance of a Lifetime (1943 film)

The Chance of a Lifetime
Film poster
Directed byWilliam Castle
Written byJack Boyle
Paul Yawitz
Produced byWallace MacDonald
StarringChester Morris
Erik Rolf
Jeanne Bates
CinematographyErnest Miller
Edited byJerome Thoms
Music byM. W. Stoloff
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • October 26, 1943 (1943-10-26)
Running time
65 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Chance of a Lifetime is a 1943 crime drama starring Chester Morris, Erik Rolf and Jeanne Bates. It is one of 14 films made by Columbia Pictures involving detective Boston Blackie, a criminal-turned-crime solver. This was the sixth in the series and one of three that did not have his name in the title. The film is also William Castle's directorial debut. As with many of the films of the period, this was a flag waver to support America's efforts during World War II.

The film is under copyright until 2039 due to renewal.[1]

Plot

Boston Blackie helps get prisoners with needed skills released on parole to help in the machine and tool plant of his friend, Arthur Manleder. Those chosen want to support America's war effort. All of the parolees have to stay in Blackie's apartment, all except robber Dooley Watson. Blackie allows him to see his wife and son.

Watson goes after the payroll money he stole before he was captured. His wife Mary convinces him to give it back, but his partners in crime, "Red" Taggart and "Nails" Blanton, have been waiting patiently for their share. When they threaten Dooley's family, Dooley fights back. Red is killed in the ensuing struggle. Nails runs off. If Boston Blackie is to save his project, he has to capture Nails and force him to confess the death was in self-defense, all while dodging Inspector Farraday.

Cast

Uncredited:

Production

William Castle wanted to direct. Harry Cohn gave him the chance with this film. Castle said it was a "lousy, dull, contrived, miserable script; the characters wooden and the dialogue unbelievably bad. My first picture and I had a turkey!"[3]

He tried to arrange for the script to be rewritten but Irving Briskin refused and Castle was too scared to ask Cohn for a rewrite. The film was shot in twelve days. Castle says Chester Morris "tried to breathe some life into a part that died at birth" and Bates "hopelessly tried to play the femme fetale".[4]

Castle said Briskin disliked the film and rearranged its structure with extensive cutting making it, in Castle's words, "even more muddled and screwed up than it had been originally."[5]

Reception

Reviews of the film were terrible but Castle says Cohn backed him and gave him another movie to direct, The Whistler, which was a success.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Catalog of Copyright Entries 3D Ser Vol 25 PTS 12-13". U.S. Govt. Print. Off. 1971.
  2. ^ "Minta Durfee Filmography". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on October 19, 2015. Retrieved March 13, 2020.
  3. ^ Castle p. 73
  4. ^ Castle p. 74
  5. ^ Castle p. 75
  6. ^ Castle p 76

Bibliography

  • Castle, William (1976). Step right up!: ... I'm gonna scare the pants off America. Putnam.

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