Anne Baxter, of all people, is ready to get slashing, in Chase A Crooked Shadow, a brisk and tight late '50s thriller directed by the puzzling Michael Anderson, whose filmography encompasses both the dreadful Around the World In Eighty Days and the very unusual The Quiller Memorandum. This intriguing item is the subject of the week's Foreign Region DVD Report, at The Auteurs'.
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