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THE CHASE
Synopsis
On a Miami sidewalk, Navy veteran Chuck Scott finds the wallet of gangster Eddie Roman, who hires him as a driver. He meets Gino, Eddie’s right-hand man, & Lorna, the mobster’s wife. Terrified by Eddie, she begs Chuck to take her to Cuba. He buys the tickets but is spotted so Gino is sent after them
Synopsis
On a Miami sidewalk, Navy veteran Chuck Scott finds the wallet of gangster Eddie Roman, who hires him as a driver. He meets Gino, Eddie’s right-hand man, & Lorna, the mobster’s wife. Terrified by Eddie, she begs Chuck to take her to Cuba. He buys the tickets but is spotted so Gino is sent after them
Our take
The Big Sleep was long held as the most confounding of mysteries—good luck unraveling its story!—that is, until Arthur Ripley’s practically surrealist noir The Chase was rediscovered and restored. A labyrinth of hidden pasts and lost memories, it is Hollywood noir at its baroquely oneiric peak.