Movie Review - Angel Face
Angel Face (1952)
directed by Otto Preminger
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from the vaults
If noir conventions demand a Walter Neff to play sucker to the femme fatale, how does a man as cynical as Robert Mitchum take the dive? In "Angel Face," he never does. Frank slips out on the girl at home, but the rest is a series of machinations he's helpless to prevent and unwilling to blame, maybe because Jean Simmons inflicts most of the harm in spite of herself.
directed by Otto Preminger
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from the vaults
If noir conventions demand a Walter Neff to play sucker to the femme fatale, how does a man as cynical as Robert Mitchum take the dive? In "Angel Face," he never does. Frank slips out on the girl at home, but the rest is a series of machinations he's helpless to prevent and unwilling to blame, maybe because Jean Simmons inflicts most of the harm in spite of herself.
posted by NPK at 7:39 AM
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