---
title: 'Crossroads (1942)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Jack Conway'
released: '1942-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 83
genres:
  - 'Mystery'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/crossroads-1942'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034622/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Crossroads (1942)

1942 · 83 min · Mystery · United States


## Synopsis

Crossroads is a 1942 American mystery film noir directed by Jack Conway and starring William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor and Basil Rathbone. Powell plays a diplomat whose amnesia about his past subjects him to back-to-back blackmail schemes, which threaten his reputation, job, marriage, and future. The film was inspired by the 1938 French film Crossroads, which had also had a British remake, Dead Man's Shoes, in 1940.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Jack Conway](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-conway)
- **Screenplay:** [Frederick Kohner](https://cinepixo.com/people/frederick-kohner), [Guy Trosper](https://cinepixo.com/people/guy-trosper)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Bronisław Kaper](https://cinepixo.com/people/bronis-aw-kaper)
- **Producer:** [Edwin H. Knopf](https://cinepixo.com/people/edwin-h-knopf)
- **Director of Photography:** [Joseph Ruttenberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-ruttenberg)

## Cast

- [Ellinor Vanderveer](https://cinepixo.com/people/ellinor-vanderveer)
- [Margaret Wycherly](https://cinepixo.com/people/margaret-wycherly)
- [Felix Bressart](https://cinepixo.com/people/felix-bressart)
- [Jack Chefe](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-chefe)
- [Anna Q. Nilsson](https://cinepixo.com/people/anna-q-nilsson)
- [Sig Ruman](https://cinepixo.com/people/sig-ruman)
- [Philip Merivale](https://cinepixo.com/people/philip-merivale)
- [John Mylong](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-mylong)
- [Hedy Lamarr](https://cinepixo.com/people/hedy-lamarr)
- [Vladimir Sokoloff](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-sokoloff)
- [Fritz Leiber](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-leiber-2)
- [Claire Trevor](https://cinepixo.com/people/claire-trevor)
- [William Powell](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-powell)
- [H. B. Warner](https://cinepixo.com/people/h-b-warner)
- [Basil Rathbone](https://cinepixo.com/people/basil-rathbone)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/crossroads-1942
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