Angel Face

Angel Face is a 1952 black-and-white film shot in the film noir style. The film was directed by Otto Preminger and is one of his many films noir that also include Laura (1944), Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950), and Fallen Angel (1945). The movie was filmed on location in Beverly Hills, California. Dimitri Tiomkin composed the music for the film.

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Frank Jessup (Mitchum), an ambulance driver, meets 19-year-old (and mentally insane) Diane Tremayne (Simmons) while attending to her rich step mother after a strange accident. Diane is immediately attracted to former race car driver Frank and plans to use him to kill for her. When Diane follows Frank to his favorite diner, he tells her what he really wants to do is open a garage. Diane attempts to lure Frank with money and talks her father and stepmother to hire him as a chauffer. While working for the family Frank pitches the idea of a garage to Miss Wilson, who likes the idea. Diane finds out and instead tells Frank that the step mother hates her and has no intention of helping Frank with the finances. When Diane finally suggests that the pair team up to kill her step mother, Frank has enough and attempts to leave. Meanwhile Diane has rigged her mother's car to go backwards over a cliff when someone steps on the gas. The car indeed goes over, but her father was also unexpectedly in the car too. Now the young couple are arrested and charged with murdering the pair for money. While in jail, Frank and Diane get married as a ruse to help their case. They're eventually acquitted but Frank now doesn't want anything to do with the apparently insane Diane. Diane has other plans. She wants them to go over the cliff together too.

1952: 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar)....

Black-and-white: This article is about the term as used in media and computing; for more specific uses, see Black and White....

Film noir: Film noir is a film style and mood primarily associated with crime films, that portrays its principal characters in a nihilistic and existential world. Film noir is primarily derived from the hard-boiled style of crime fiction of the Depression era, (many films noir were adaptations of such novels)...

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