Angel Face
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Time Out says
Superb Freudian crime thriller, noir-inflected in theme but shot by and large in crisp, bright drawing-rooms. Mitchum is the archetypal noir-hero confronted with a devious femme fatale; as an ambulance driver who becomes so infatuated with the outwardly angelic Simmons that he moves in as her family's chauffeur and can't bring himself to admit that she is trying to murder her mother, he gives one of his most restrained and lyrical performances, perfectly offset by Simmons' demonic ingenue. Preminger, as it were, flattens the melodramatics of the story with typically cool clarity, emphasising its psychological complexities and allowing the occasional incursions of violence to emerge with shocking matter-of-factness.Author: GA
Release details
UK release:
1952
Duration:
91 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Cast:
Leon Ames, Mona Freeman, Herbert Marshall, Jean Simmons, Robert Mitchum, Barbara O'Neil
Music:
Art Director:
Carroll Clark, Albert S D'Agostino
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