Too Late for Tears

Infobox Film | name = Too Late for Tears


caption = Too Late for Tears DVD cover
director = Byron Haskin
producer = Hunt Stromberg
writer = Roy Huggins
starring =Lizabeth Scott
Don DeFore
Dan Duryea
Arthur Kennedy
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distributor = United Artists
released = August 13, 1949 (U.S. release)
runtime = 99 min
language = English
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imdb_id = 0041968

"Too Late for Tears" is a 1949 black-and-white film starring Lizabeth Scott and Dan Duryea. Scott and Duryea appeared in many films noir during this era; however, they only appeared in one other film together; the western "Silver Lode". This film, shot in film noir style, has been available in the public domain for years, but there are many different edits of the film available and it's very difficult to find a complete edit. The movie, also known as "Killer Bait", was seen on beach house television in the 2004 neo-noir movie "Spartan". Byron Haskin directed the film. He later went on to be the associate producer of (1966).

Plot

Alan Palmer (Kennedy) accidentally gets a hold of $60,000 in stolen cash. His plotting wife Jane (Scott), one of the great movie femme fatales, insists that they keep the money instead of going to the police. A drunken private detective (Duryea) becomes wise to the plan and tries to take the money from them. Jane works out a deal to split the money with the P.I. Then, realizing that her husband can't be trusted, Jane murders him on a romantic lake boat ride with the help of the detective. When she reports her husband missing, the plot thickens as the brother of Jane's ex-husband, who also died mysteriously, shows up. He's working with Alan's sister Kathy who is growing more suspicious of Jane's shaky story. Jane eventually escapes to Mexico but is tracked down by the snooping pair.

Cast

*Lizabeth Scott as Jane Palmer
*Don DeFore as Don Blake
*Dan Duryea as Danny Fuller
*Arthur Kennedy as Alan Palmer

External links

* [http://noiroftheweek.blogspot.com/2007/12/too-late-for-tears-aka-killer-bait-1949.html Film Noir of the Week review]
* [http://www.archive.org/details.php?identifier=TooLateForTears&newflash=0 Two Late For Tears available at Archive.org] for streaming or free Mpeg4 download.