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Kiss the Blood Off My Hands is a 1948 American noir - thriller film directed by Norman Foster. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Gerald Butler, it stars Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, and Robert Newton.
- October 29, 1948 (United States)
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands: Directed by Norman Foster. With Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, Robert Newton, Lewis L. Russell. Fugitive Bill Saunders and lonely nurse Jane Wharton are crossed by fate when he hides out in her apartment.
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- Norman Foster
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands. A blackmailer (Robert Newton) hounds a World War II veteran (Burt Lancaster) hiding from the police with a nurse (Joan Fontaine) in London.
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- Norman Foster
- Crime, Drama
- Joan Fontaine
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Brief Synopsis. Read More. Bill Saunders, disturbed ex-soldier, kills a man in a postwar London pub brawl. Fleeing, he hides out in the apartment of lonely nurse Jane Wharton. Later, despite misgivings about his violent nature, Jane becomes involved with Bill, who resolves to reform.
- Norman Foster, Jack Voglin
- Joan Fontaine
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands. Summaries. Fugitive Bill Saunders and lonely nurse Jane Wharton are crossed by fate when he hides out in her apartment. Bill Saunders, disturbed ex-soldier, kills a man in a postwar London pub brawl. Fleeing, he hides out in the apartment of lonely nurse Jane Wharton.
Bill Saunders, played by Burt Lancaster, is a disturbed ex-soldier, who kills a man in a post-war London pub brawl. It isn’t even much of a brawl, so much as a call for last orders that breaks Burt Lancaster’s drunken dream and causes him to lash out.
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, from 1948, is based on a novel by Gerald Butler, and was adapted by Ben Maddow and Walter Bernstein (one of the Hollywood Ten). The screenplay is by Leonardo Bercovici, with Hugh Gray credited as providing additional dialogue. The director, Norman Foster, had been an actor throughout the 1930s.
