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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.
A 1948 crime drama film-noir starring Joan Fontaine and Burt Lancaster as a fugitive and a nurse who fall in love. The film explores themes of violence, guilt, and redemption in postwar London.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Norman Foster
- 1948-10-30
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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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.
A disturbed ex-soldier kills a man in a London pub and hides out with a nurse. She tries to help him reform, but he gets involved with a racketeer.
- Norman Foster, Jack Voglin
- Joan Fontaine
With perhaps the most lurid title of the noir cycle, Norman Foster’s Kiss the Blood Off My Hands is a visual stunner that turns studio-bound streetscapes and high-contrast lighting into a dazzling nighttime London atmosphere that engulfs most of the film. After American drifter and former prisoner of war Bill Saunders (Burt Lancaster ...
Apr 18, 2023 · Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent, gets into a bar fight in which he in kills a man and then flees. He hides out with the assistance of a nurse, Jane Wharton, who believes his story that the killing was an accident. Addeddate.
