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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. [4] [5] The film faced minor opposition from fundamentalist groups in the United States and the Commonwealth, with regard to ...
- 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
A crime drama film based on the novel by Gerald Butler, starring Burt Lancaster and Joan Fontaine. Bill Saunders, a disturbed ex-soldier, kills a man in a pub brawl and hides out in the apartment of Jane Wharton, a nurse. She falls in love with him and helps him reform, but he faces a racketeer and a gangster.
- Norman Foster, Jack Voglin
- Joan Fontaine
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. Later, despite misgivings about his violent nature, Jane becomes involved with Bill, who ...
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The rescuing female belongs to a much older tradition ― but even knowing that he’s a killer, doesn’t stop Joan Fontaine from a heart breaking attempt at rescue. Kiss The Blood Off My Hands (1948) is one of those great film noirs in which the entirely story is told in the title. The hero is a murderer ― he has blood on his hands.
“LURID LOVE AND NOIR†By Raymond Benson. Film historian Jeremy Arnold, who provides the excellent audio commentary as a supplement for the terrific Blu-ray release of Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, says the movie’s title is remarkably “lurid.†The Production Code people obviously had a problem with the title and tried to get it changed, but an appeal from up and coming ...
