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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Turner
EAN: 0053939778120
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Turner Home Ent
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0JapaneseOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0EnglishSubtitledFrenchDubbed
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
MPN: DT7781D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 23, 2007
Running Time: 91 minutes
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: December 11, 1952
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Product Description:
Otto Preminger who showed how to mix a beautiful woman with murder in the landmark Laura directs this tale of a passion gone haywire. Frank's a regular guy with a steady girl and a dream of owning his own garage when he crosses paths with Diane. She wants him. Or does she want a fall guy to blame when Diane's stepmother plunges off a high cliff and leaves her fortune to Diane? Alibis betrayals courtroom thrills and the fire of a woman too dangerous to trust and too alluring to resist make Angel Face a film-noir classic.Running Time: 91 min.System Requirements:Run Time: 91 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSIC UPC: 053939778120 Manufacturer No: T7781
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Robert Mitchum was already a dab hand at film noir when he stepped into the delicious trap of Angel Face, Otto Preminger's 1952 addition to the genre. Here Mitchum plays an amazingly seducible guy who falls under the spell of spoiled rich girl Jean Simmons; a former race-car driver, he'd like to open his own sports-car garage, and her money would come in awfully handy. But she's got a few quirks to work out first, including her hostility for her stepmother, who doesn't stand a chance against this poker-faced vixen. True to its title, the film has an absolutely deadpan approach to this material, as Preminger's calm style recalls more the clinical courtroom proceedings of Anatomy of a Murder than the perverse lushness of Laura. Mitchum's in absolutely top form, and Jean Simmons has just right amount of intensity behind her porcelain beauty. The supporting cast is led by Herbert Marshall, as Simmons' father, a writer who's been sponging off his wife for years, and Leon Ames does a skillful turn as a crafty lawyer. The ending is as pre-ordained as can be, and the film moves toward its sinister conclusion without turning its head to explore other options. But that's why we love film noir. --Robert Horton
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Rating:  -
I'm no huge film noir fan but get a kick out of Hollywood's idea of nasty characters up to no good, circa 1950. This Otto Preminger project (produced by Howard Hughes) is as good as they come, with a smoldering Jean Simmons ensnaring an equally smoldering Robert Mitchum in a scheme to do away with her wealthy step-mother. When all is said and done, a lot more gets done away with than anybody bargains for. The script (after numerous rewrites, including an uncredited one by Ben Hecht) has enough clever ... Read More
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The movie plunged into its plot way to soon before I got to decide which character is to like or to hate, or even if I'm interested in them to see where they go. Unusual enough plot twist at the hour mark, not very believable (at least now days) but I suppose one would be capable to do anything when their neck is so close to a noose.
Notes: That Jean Simmons looks a bit at times like Audrey Hepburn. Mitchum was way to cool for a framed guy. The femme fatale: you weren't really sure if it ... Read More
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***** 1952. Produced and directed by Otto Preminger. Robert Mitchum is seduced by Jean Simmons, the stepdaughter of a wealthy business woman. He's put on trial when Jean manages to plot her stepmother's death. A movie I worship for more than 35 years now. Rocked between the black-haired Dianne and the blonde Mary, Frank Jessup suffers the consequences of his passivity. ANGEL FACE'S screenplay resumes the vertebral column of the 1945 Fallen Angel (Fox Film Noir) but gives to the character of Diane Tremayne ... Read More
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I have loved this movie for more years that I can remember. It is the best. I have been waiting for it to come out on dvd. The only copy I had of it was a vcr that I recorded from the tv. I am so glad it is now out on DVD..
Jean Simmons plays a young woman who is totally spoiled & hates her step-mother, who has all the money & controls it also. Her father has no money of his own so everything he gives her the stepmother pays for.
She desides to kill her step-mother so that the money ... Read More
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Conceived simply as an instrument of Howard Hughes' revenge, "Angel Face"'s perverse production history and mundane plotting yielded a disquieting cult classic in the deft hands of director Otto Preminger. Actress Jean Simmons had successfully sued Hughes to get out of a 7-year contract but still owed RKO a movie. Not one to let bygones be bygones, Hughes pulled an unexceptional script out of the vaults and plied Preminger to direct, promising him full creative control. It was the sort of "murder drama" that we ... Read More
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