Black Angel
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Director Roy William Neill Music director Frank Skinner Country United States | 7/10 IMDb Genre Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date August 2, 1946 (1946-08-02) (United States) Based on the novel The Black Angel
by Cornell Woolrich Writer Roy Chanslor (screenplay), Cornell Woolrich (novel) Screenplay Cornell Woolrich, Roy Chanslor Cast Dan Duryea (Martin Blair), June Vincent (Catherine Bennett), Peter Lorre (Marko), Broderick Crawford (Captain Flood), Constance Dowling (Mavis Marlowe), Wallace Ford (Joe)Similar movies The Big Sleep , The Asphalt Jungle , Detour , Double Indemnity , They Live by Night , Notorious Tagline Duryea! ...that fascinating tough-guy of "Scarlet Street"! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Black Angel is a 1946 American crime film noir directed by Roy William Neill starring Dan Duryea, June Vincent and Peter Lorre.
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Plot
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine (June Vincent), and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin (Dan Duryea), team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, Mavis Marlowe (Constance Dowling), who had been Martin's wife. Their investigation leads them to face-to-face confrontations with a determined policeman, Captain Flood (Broderick Crawford), and a shifty nightclub owner, Mr. Marko (Peter Lorre), who Catherine and Martin suspect may be the real killer.
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Reception
Dark City: The Film Noir, by Spencer Selby, calls Black Angel: "Important, stylish B-noir, featuring Dan Duryea as the ironic central character".
Writer Cornell Woolrich reportedly hated this adaption of his story which, aside from the conclusion, differed greatly from his book.
This was the final film for the prolific Neill, whose directing career encompassed over 100 films starting in 1917.
References
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