KISS THE BLOOD OFF MY HANDS (1948) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Norman Foster
Burt Lancaster, Joan Fontaine, Robert Newton,
Jay Novello, Grizelda Harvey, Aminta Dyne
A damaged war veteran, plagued by bouts of uncontrolled violence, kills a man in a bar, meets a nice girl, and gets blackmailed into doing some dirty work in an efficiently made him noir shot in Hollywood but set in foggy London. Nicely underplayed by Fontaine and Lancaster, with a nasty turn by Robert Newton as the hoodlum who sets Burt up. The ending feels a little contrived, but that's a great film noir title, don't you think?
