Directed by Alfred L. Werker • 1947 • United States
Starring Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field

Something like film noir’s answer to IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, or a full-length precursor to THE TWILIGHT ZONE, this amazingly original hybrid of film noir, supernatural fantasy, and backstage melodrama casts Joan Leslie as a Broadway performer who magically gets the chance to relive the previous year of her life. But can she alter the fateful mistakes and misjudgments that led to a New Year’s Eve tragedy? Produced as a rare prestige picture by fledgling Poverty Row studio Eagle-Lion Pictures, this darkly imaginative noir also features Richard Basehart in his movie debut as a gay artist, one of the era’s most sensitive depictions of a queer character.