Movie Review - Black Angel
Black Angel (1946)
directed by Roy William Neill
rating: 3 out of 5 cravats
on VHS from Black Lodge Video
Solving the case by winning the big audition is a little too much like the plot of a musical or teen comedy I can't think of right now. And alcoholism really isn't that neat of a plot twist, unless it's a western and the firewater's flowing and I'm expecting a lot less from my average inconsiderate screenwriter. But at least Peter Lorre gets to relax a little, play the casual nightclub sleaze, his legs akimbo and a cigarette dangling from that weary, cynical kisser.
directed by Roy William Neill
rating: 3 out of 5 cravats
on VHS from Black Lodge Video
Solving the case by winning the big audition is a little too much like the plot of a musical or teen comedy I can't think of right now. And alcoholism really isn't that neat of a plot twist, unless it's a western and the firewater's flowing and I'm expecting a lot less from my average inconsiderate screenwriter. But at least Peter Lorre gets to relax a little, play the casual nightclub sleaze, his legs akimbo and a cigarette dangling from that weary, cynical kisser.
posted by NPK at 7:52 AM
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