She Got What She Wanted... With Lies... With Kisses... With Murder!
Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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“Would Too Late for Tears hit harder if it came out today rather than in 1949?”
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- John Chardon TMDB · Sep 20198/10
Housewives can get awfully bored sometimes. Too late for Tears is directed by Byron Haskin and written by Roy Huggins. It stars Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea and Arthur Kennedy. Music is by Dale Butts and cinematography by William C. Mellor. One night Alan and Jane Palmer (Kennedy & Scott) are driving to a party out Hollywood way, when all of a sudden someone in another car tosses a suitcase filled with cash into the back seat of their car. So begins a tale of greed, betrayal and murder... Money is poison. Low budget be damned, Too Late for Tears (AKA: Killer Bait) ends up being a film noir (in story terms) of some excellence. Banging the drum whilst singing that money be the root of all evil, Haskin (I Walk Alone) and Huggins (I Love Trouble) put Scott front and center as one of the ultimate femme fatale bitches. Jane Palmer is a cunning cat, it's perhaps not for nothing that Duryea's Danny Fuller pet names her as Tiger, for Palmer knows exactly what she wants, and now that she has the financial means and sees a way of elevating herself to the richer playing field, she literally will stop at nothing to keep it that way. Be it murder or her sexuality as a weapon, Palmer is
Read the whole review on TMDB - CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jul 20226/10
Lizabeth Scott ("Jane") stumbles on a case filled with cash. She takes it home and confides in husband Arthur Kennedy who promptly deposits it in the lost luggage at Grand Central station whilst they lay low and figure out what to do. She gets greedy and when he tries to rein her in, she goes boating with him; shoots him in an onboard tussle then sets about retrieving the loot and escaping alive... Dan Duryea is quite good as her drunken, unreliable, sidekick and Don DeFore sort of appears from nowhere are her ultimate nemesis. It is quite a decent crime noir, quite tense at time, but it is way too long, a little convoluted at times, and is really let down by a poor ending.
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Cast
- Lizabeth ScottJane Palmer
- Don DeForeDon Blake
- Dan DuryeaDanny Fuller
- Arthur KennedyAlan Palmer
- Kristine MillerKathy Palmer
- Barry KelleyLt. Breach
- Kevin O'MorrisonPoliceman (uncredited)
- June StoreyFuller's Girl (uncredited)
- James NolanDetective Parker (uncredited)
- Forbes MurrayDr. Adams (uncredited)
Crew
- Byron HaskinDirector
- Roy HugginsScreenplay
- William C. MellorDirector of Photography
- R. Dale ButtsOriginal Music Composer
- Harry KellerEditor
- Hunt StrombergProducer
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