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Apr
03

Too Late for Tears: Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy (1949 Movie)

DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org Too Late for Tears is a 1949 black-and-white film noir directed by Byron Haskin and starring Lizabeth Scott and Dan Duryea. The screenplay was written by Roy Huggins, drawn from a serial he wrote for the Saturday Evening Post. The film was reissued as Killer Bait in 1955. Too Late for Tears has been in the public domain for years but there are sundry edits and running times. Alan and Jane Palmer (Kennedy and Scott) are driving to a party in the Hollywood Hills one evening when someone in another car throws a suitcase stuffed with cash into the back seat of their convertible. They are chased by yet another car for a short time but get away. Back at their (quite respectable) Hollywood apartment they find 000 inside the suitcase. Jane wants to keep the money, but Alan wants to take it to the police and stashes the cash in a locker at Union Station, hoping he can sway her into willingly giving the money to the police. A few days later while Alan is at work Danny (Duryea) shows up at their apartment, tells Jane he is a detective and quickly learns she has the money and has already begun spending it. Her husband Alan likewise becomes upset when he finds she has been running up bills, clearly planning to spend their new-found, ill-gotten wealth. With her heart steadfastly set on keeping the money, she makes a deal with Danny to split the money. Hoping to kill him, she lures Danny up into the hills but he doesn’t trust her and flees. She
Video Rating: 4 / 5

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  1. ゆか 佐々木 says:

    私はお金の使い道に大変困っております。
    詳しい詳細はこちらに記載しました。まずはこちらを見て頂きたいです。
    http://986.jp/
    誰か小額でもいいので引き取って頂けないでしょうか?誰でも結構です。
    気軽にご連絡して下さい。お待ちしております。

  2. slonamu says:

    All and Peggy Bundy in film noir.

  3. pgroenendaal says:

    Lizabeth Scott was an intriguing star of the late 40s. Her sultry looks and smoky voice lived up to being named “The Threat”. More of a femme fatale than Bacall she was very good at playing very bad girls.

  4. kpflo123 says:

    There was never a movie with Dan Duryea that I didn’t like. He was always the scheming bad guy, associated to a girl with no morals.

    Liz Scott is the poor man’s Lauren Bacall.

    When I wattch Don DeFore, all I can see him as is the father of the family in TV’s “Hazel,” – starring Shirley Booth.

  5. NaturalElicia says:

    She was a wild tiger!

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