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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 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, but suffers from a thin plot and a disappointing ending.
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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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Brief Synopsis. 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
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.
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands is a 1940 crime thriller novel by English writer Gerald Butler. It was his first novel, originally published by Nicholson and Watson in April 1940. It quickly became a best-seller and the author was signed to a multi-book deal with Jarrolds Publishing.
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.
