Angel Face (1952)
Country: US
Technical: bw 91m
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Jean Simmons, Robert Mitchum, Herbert Marshall
Synopsis:
A cool young heiress employees an ambulance driver as chauffeur so she can 'off' her stepmother by rigging the car, but the fella is neither sap enough nor straight enough.
Review:
One of those utterly daft melodramas they don't seem able to bring off anymore without descending into crassness, this provided Simmons - stunning in a succession of snugly tailored outfits - with the juiciest role of her career. Its exuberance is at times overwhelming, backed by one of those kitschy piano themes common to pictures like this (cf. Undercurrent), but the script is below par.
Country: US
Technical: bw 91m
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Jean Simmons, Robert Mitchum, Herbert Marshall
Synopsis:
A cool young heiress employees an ambulance driver as chauffeur so she can 'off' her stepmother by rigging the car, but the fella is neither sap enough nor straight enough.
Review:
One of those utterly daft melodramas they don't seem able to bring off anymore without descending into crassness, this provided Simmons - stunning in a succession of snugly tailored outfits - with the juiciest role of her career. Its exuberance is at times overwhelming, backed by one of those kitschy piano themes common to pictures like this (cf. Undercurrent), but the script is below par.
Country: US
Technical: bw 91m
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Jean Simmons, Robert Mitchum, Herbert Marshall
Synopsis:
A cool young heiress employees an ambulance driver as chauffeur so she can 'off' her stepmother by rigging the car, but the fella is neither sap enough nor straight enough.
Review:
One of those utterly daft melodramas they don't seem able to bring off anymore without descending into crassness, this provided Simmons - stunning in a succession of snugly tailored outfits - with the juiciest role of her career. Its exuberance is at times overwhelming, backed by one of those kitschy piano themes common to pictures like this (cf. Undercurrent), but the script is below par.