Second Chance (1953 film)
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| Directed by | Rudolph Maté |
| Produced by | Sam Wiesenthal |
| Screenplay by |
Sydney Boehm Oscar Millard |
| Story by | D. M. Marshman, Jr. |
| Starring |
Robert Mitchum Jack Palance Linda Darnell |
| Music by | Roy Webb |
| Cinematography | William E. Snyder |
| Edited by | Robert Ford Albrecht Joseph |
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RKO Radio Pictures
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| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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Running time
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82 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $2 million (US) |
Second Chance is a 1953 Technicolor film noir crime film, directed by Rudolph Maté. The picture, shot on location in Mexico in 3-Dimension, features Robert Mitchum, Linda Darnell, and Jack Palance. It is notable as the first RKO film produced in 3D.
A mob bookkeeper (played by Milburn Stone) is confronted, shot, and killed by the utterly ruthless hitman Cappy Gordon (Jack Palance), under orders from the notorious gangster Vic Spilato, who is currently under investigation by the U.S. Senate. Cappy then heads for San Cristóbal, a bustling town in an unspecified Latin American country, with plans to deliver a similar fate to Spilato's estranged girlfriend, the singer Clare Shepperd (Linda Darnell), who is trying to escape her past connections with Spilato.
Meanwhile, Russ Lambert (played by Robert Mitchum), an American prizefighter with a lethal right-handed punch, also heads to San Cristóbal to take his mind off his recent, accidental killing of an opponent in the ring. Lambert prepares to fight a local challenger named Rivera. At the same time, Clare, under the alias "Clare Sinclair," seeks out a bar-owner named Felipe who was once criminally connected with her gangster ex, and sells him a valuable pair of earrings. Clare watches as Lambert wins the match against Rivera and finds herself attracted to Lambert, though she has mistakenly bet on Rivera. Soon afterward, Cappy's hunt for Clare ends, and he expresses his love for her, promising to spare her life if she will run off with him. Instead, Clare flees for Felipe's bar and threatens to expose the owner to Cappy, unless Felipe will persuade Lambert to meet her at the isolated Posado de Don Pascual. Felipe does so and Clare and Lambert meet there, tentatively beginning a relationship with romantic possibilities, though Clare does not tell Lambert about her stormy past.
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