I had never heard about this movie but it's free on Amazon prime and if you like classic black and white movies, this one is amazing. Great cast with Joan Leslie in a serious role and louis hayward and richard basehart and a bunch of others--John Conway for one. Everyone is really good. Very well written. Very dramatic. Just a gem. I haven't said anything about the plot. I'm sure others have. Just watch it.

Joan Leslie stars with Louis Hayward, Tom Conway, Richard Basehart, and Virginia Field in "Repeat Performance" from 1947.I actually saw what I thought was a very good TV movie version of this - "Turn Back the Clock" with Connie Selleca, David Dukes, Jere Burns, Gene Barry, and Dina Merrill. Leslie plays a stage actress, Sheila Page who, at the very beginning of the film, on New Year's Eve, shoots her husband. Panicked, she meets up with a close friend, William, and heads for a New Year's party at her producer's (Tom Conway) apartment. She says she wishes she could do the whole year over. When she turns to her friend, he's gone, she's in last year's gown, and the New Year's Eve party is for the previous year. She's gotten her wish.Well, we know how these things usually turn out -- but the way it turns out is interesting, to say the least.This is a noirish film, and everyone is very good - Leslie is glammed-up and appropriately confused. Hayward is effective as an obnoxious drunk, Field an arch femme fatale, and Basehart as a good friend. I have to admit, in "Turn Black the Clock," things are a little more fleshed out, especially the Basehart and Field roles, and I actually liked that aspect better.Nevertheless, this is a fascinating film from the '40s.

I was excited when I found this website and began looking at some old TV shows and movies. It dawned on me suddenly to looked up the title of this movie and there it was. I am glad to see that I am not the only person who would like to see this movie again. Hopefully it will be made available soon. I remember watching this movie in the eighties when I was very young and I still think about it to this day!!!!!! I only saw it one time and have often wished to see it again. I remember being captivated by this black and white thriller. There is always something spellbinding about someone who is given a chance to change their past.

Interesting noir that issues from an imaginative premise-- suppose we had a year that we could live all over again. So who wouldn't want that opportunity. Naturally, we could change our own actions to better optimize outcomes, but what about others-- would their actions have to change too. The premise may even require the entire world to live that same year over so as to fit into the changes that ripple out from our own changes. Conceptual questions aside, the premise is simplified here into a rather clever soap-operish plot— namely, can sympathetic Sheila (Leslie) avoid killing her louse husband (Hayward) a second time around. That is, can she maybe just ignore his many provocations, given a second chance.Instead of playing up occult aspects, the screenplay concentrates on revolving relationships among sophisticated show-business types. It's a good cast, especially an agreeably addled Richard Basehart. However, I'm not sure the sweetly gentle Leslie has the gravitas for a difficult role, especially for the wronged woman part. Still, she certainly wins our sympathy. Director Werker films in noirish style lending the visuals a suitably twilight quality. The ending too is appropriate, without obvious cheating on the premise.The movie seems more obscure than deserved and I'm not sure why. It certainly made an impression on me on first viewing many years ago. I suspect the obscurity is because of a B- movie cast-- no matter how accomplished—and a non-studio pedigree. But whatever the reason, the film remains a thought provoking 90-minutes even this many years after.