| Street of Shadows | |
| Director: | Richard Vernon |
| Producer: | William Nassour William H. Williams executive Nat Cohen Stuart Levy |
| Starring: | Cesar Romero Kay Kendall Victor Maddern Simone Silva |
| Music: | Eric Spear |
| Cinematography: | Phil Grindrod |
| Editing: | Geoffrey Muller |
| Studio: | William Nassour Productions Merton Park Studios |
| Distributor: | Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors |
| Runtime: | 84 minutes |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
Street of Shadows, also known as Shadow Man, is a 1953 British film noir written and directed by Richard Vernon and starring Cesar Romero, Kay Kendall and Edward Underdown.[1] It is based on the 1951 novel The Creaking Chair by Laurence Meynell.
Luigi, the owner of a Soho pin table saloon, is romancing an unhappily married socialite, Barbara Gale. He is accused of the murder of his former girlfriend Angela, who was found stabbed in his apartment. He evades the police and asks his friend Limpy for help, but Limpy is revealed to be Angela's killer.
It was shot at the Merton Park Studios in London and on location in the city's West End. The film's sets were designed by the art director George Haslam. It was an early production of Anglo-Amalgamated who had signed a deal with Lippert Pictures who distributed the film in the United States. While much of the company's output at the time were second features, this was a more expensive film aimed at the first feature market.[2]
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A conventional thriller. The sound track is somewhat enlivened by Tommy Reilly's harmonica solos, particularly 'The Limping Man', which seems destined to share the fate of the 'Harry Lime Theme'."[3]