Black Angel

1946
Approved
1h 21m

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Peter Lorre, Dan Duryea, Constance Dowling, and June Vincent in Black Angel (1946)

Film Noir Adventure Crime Music Mystery Thriller

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueWhen Kirk Bennett is convicted of a singer's murder, his wife tries to prove him innocent...aided by the victim's ex-husband.When Kirk Bennett is convicted of a singer's murder, his wife tries to prove him innocent...aided by the victim's ex-husband.When Kirk Bennett is convicted of a singer's murder, his wife tries to prove him innocent...aided by the victim's ex-husband.

Director
- Roy William Neill
Writers
- Roy Chanslor
- Cornell Woolrich
Stars

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,9/10

4,1 k

MA NOTE

Director
- Roy William Neill
Writers
- Roy Chanslor
- Cornell Woolrich
Stars

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Anecdotes
Like her character Mavis, Constance Dowling would die at a relatively young age. She passed away at age 49 due to cardiac arrest. The same fate would befall her son Peter Tors, who died in 1998 at age 41.

Gaffes
Why didn't Marty's apartment caretaker go to the police about letting Marty back out of his room after his friend Joe had bolted him in for the night to sleep off his bender? Initially, he had no reason to suspect Marty of the crime of murdering a Mavis Marlowe, but he became aware that Marty was a suspect afterwards (and thus Marty's alibi didn't hold). He would not have been complicit in anything more than taking a quarter from Marty to be let out, the little game the two played behind Joe's back.

Citations
Catherine Bennett: I had to see you.
Martin Blair: Why... because I had a wife who needed killing and you had a husband who took care of it?

Connexions
Featured in Frances Farmer Presents: Black Angel (1958)

Bandes originales
Heartbreak
(uncredited)
Music by Edgar Fairchild
Lyrics by Jack Brooks
Performed on record, voice of character played by Constance Dowling (dubbed)

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Commentaire en vedette

Mr. Duryea's Better Side

It wasn't that Dan Duryea never played nice people. He could be typecast as an evil villain most of the time, but occasionally he got cast as a nice guy. The best examples of this is the movie executive in KATHIE O (1958), who helps a young child actress save her normal life from her mother's clutches, and this film, where he tries to help a condemned man's wife prove the man is innocent. The chief suspect is a crooked nightclub owner (Peter Lorre), and Duryea and the young lady attempt to get the proof to convince a police detective (Broderick Crawford) that Lorre did the the crime. Duryea (a musician) is the boyfriend of the murdered woman, and has an interest in finding the perpetrator. And he does at the end, but at considerable cost.

A superior film noir, and well worth the watching.