Chameleon Street Movie Review 1989

Entertaining fact-based account of William Douglas Street, a Detroit man who successfully impersonated, among others, a Time magazine reporter and a surgeon until he was caught and sent to prison. He escaped and went to Yale, faked his identity as a student, and then returned to Michigan to impersonate a lawyer for the Detroit Human Rights Commission. Harris wrote and directed this insightful look into the man who fooled many people, including the mayor of Detroit, Coleman A. Young, who appears briefly as himself.

Distribution

Facets Multimedia, Inc., 1517 W. Fullerton Ave., Chicago, IL 60614, Phone: (773)281-9075, Toll-free: 800-331-6197, Fax: (773)929-5437, Email: sales@facets.org, URL: http://www.facets.org

Available on VHS
Running time 95 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

True Stories, Mistaken Identity, Scams, Stings & Cons, Detroit

Screenplay

Wendell B. Harris

Cast

Wendell B. Harris, Angela Leslie, Amina Fakir, Paula McGee, Mano Breckenridge, David Kiley, Anthony Ennis

Cinematography

Daniel S. Noga

Director

Wendell B. Harris

Music

Peter S. Moore

Other

Coleman A. Young

Awards

Sundance 1990: Grand Jury Prize.