Noir City DC: Repeat Performance

This was the best film of the whole film festival.  It had all the trappings of an A film (meaning a top-billed movie) including great sets, a good script, fantastic costume, and great performances from everyone. If slightly more famous people were in some of the roles (like swapping Tom Conway for his brother George Sanders) this movie would be much more when known.  Joan Leslie stars a film actress Sheila Page who shoots her lecherous playwright husband Barney (Louis Hayward) on New Year's Eve just as it become 1947.  Through some kind of weird magic, Shelia gets to relieve 1946 in an attempt to change everything and prevent her shooting her husband.  This movie presents in interesting treatise on fate and if you can change a person enough to avoid certain mistakes catching up to that person.  And it shows what happens when you let gratitude to another person cloud your judgement. While I enjoyed the ending, halfway through the re-living of 1946, I wanted Sheila to move to Reno and then divorce her horrible husband so he would be out of her life my Christmas.  The version that I saw was a restored version so the film looked fantastic.  This movie is definitely an unknown but great gem.