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Title:Angel Face


Date: 1952
Type: Drama / Romance
Rating: 4 Stars 4/5
Colour: Yes
Director: Otto Preminger
Producer: Otto Preminger

Comment
Robert Mitchum is an ex-racing driver who now drives ambulances for the hospital. He is called to the apparent suicide of a wealthy woman and meets her step daughter (Jean Simmons). She persuades him to become chauffer to the family with the offer of money to support his garage and racing career. However when he decides that he wants to leave things take a sinister turn. Otto Preminger has delivered a a good film noir with Jean Simmons giving a good performance as the femme fatal who as an endearing innocence as well as underlying obsessive condition. Her understated performance is in good contrast to Robert Mitchum's dead pan performance and there is a nice twist in the tail of the film. This was the second film Jean Simmons made for RKO.

Actors

Robert MitchumRobert Mitchum
Jean SimmonsJean Simmons
Barbara O'NeilBarbara O'Neil
Mona Freeman
Herbert Marshall
Leon O'Neil
Kenneth TobeyKenneth Tobey
Raymond GreenleafRaymond Greenleaf
Griff Barnett
Robert Gist
Morgan Farley
Jim Backus

Oscars

None
Production

RKO Radio Pictures
Angel Face