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Kiss the blood off my hands is a first time watch for me and it wowed me. The story of a man who accidentally kills a bar owner and gets away with it but is later jailed for another, lesser offense but who, upon release, is then blackmailed by a shady character who witnessed the accidental killing fired in all cylinders.
From superlative performances by Burt Lancaster (the man), Joan Fontaine (the woman with whom he falls in love) and Robert Newton (the blackmailer) to a great, taut script and tons of noir mood. It is terrific.
The film is set in London, England but was shot almost entirely at Universal-International Pictures' Sound Stage 21 from March to May 1948. Some exterior scenes were shot on location at Los Angeles's Griffith Park Zoo and Hollywood Park Racetrack. And this last one must have messed up the horses as they had to run clockwise as many British tracks did at the time !!!!!
If you have not seen it, it is worth a WATCH
4/5.
Kiss the blood off my hands is a first time watch for me and it wowed me. The story of a man who accidentally kills a bar owner and gets away with it but is later jailed for another, lesser offense but who, upon release, is then blackmailed by a shady character who witnessed the accidental killing fired in all cylinders.
From superlative performances by Burt Lancaster (the man), Joan Fontaine (the woman with whom he falls in love) and Robert Newton (the blackmailer) to a great, taut script and tons of noir mood. It is terrific.
The film is set in London, England but was shot almost entirely at Universal-International Pictures' Sound Stage 21 from March to May 1948. Some exterior scenes were shot on location at Los Angeles's Griffith Park Zoo and Hollywood Park Racetrack. And this last one must have messed up the horses as they had to run clockwise as many British tracks did at the time !!!!!
If you have not seen it, it is worth a WATCH
4/5.