- Black Angel
Infobox Film | name = Black Angel
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director =Roy William Neill
producer = Tom McKnight
Roy William Neill
writer =Cornell Woolrich (novel)
Roy Chanslor
starring =Dan Duryea June Vincent Peter Lorre Broderick Crawford Constance Dowling Wallace Ford Junius Matthews
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distributor =Universal Pictures
released =August 2 , 1946 (U.S. release)
runtime = 81 min
language = English
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imdb_id = 0038360"Black Angel" is a 1946
black-and-white film noir based on the novel byCornell Woolrich . It was directed byRoy William Neill , who directed many of theSherlock Holmes film series. This was his last film.Plot
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine (June Vincent), and an alcoholic piano man, Martin (Dan Duryea) team up in an attempt to clear husband of the murder of the drunkard's wife. Their investigation leads them to face-to-face confrontations with a determined policeman (Broderick Crawford) and a shifty nightclub owner (Peter Lorre). Catherine, as the investigation goes on, begins to suspect her new partner of the crime.
Reaction
"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 hated this adaption of his story which, aside from the conclusion, differed greatly from his book.
Main cast
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Dan Duryea as Martin Blair
*June Vincent as Catherine Bennett
*Peter Lorre as Marko
*Broderick Crawford as Captain Flood
*Constance Dowling as Mavis Marlowe
*Wallace Ford as Joe
*Junius Matthews as Dr. CourtneyPop culture
"Black Angel" is referenced in the 2006 noir-influenced film "The Black Dahlia" starring
Scarlett Johansson andHilary Swank . It is the movie shown playing at the cinema featured in the rainy street scene.References
*cite book | author=Eddie Muller | title=Dark City The Lost World of Film Noir | publisher =St. Martin Press | year=1998 | id=ISBN 0-312-18076-4
*cite book | author=Spencer Selby | title=Dark City The Film Noir | publisher =mcFarland Classics | year=1984 | id=ISBN 0-7864-0478-7
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