Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948)
1948 · Feature film · 79 min · dir. Norman Foster
Only Her Arms Could Tame the Fury of His Fists!
- Drama
- film noir
- Crime
Synopsis
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands is a 1948 American noir-thriller film directed by Norman Foster. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Gerald Butler, it stars Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, and Robert Newton. The film faced minor opposition from fundamentalist groups in the United States and the Commonwealth, with regard to its gory title. In some markets, the film was released under the alternate titles The Unafraid or Blood on My Hands.
Synopsis from Wikipedia
Details
- Director
- Norman Foster
- Writer
- Gerald Butler
- Composer
- Miklós Rózsa
- Cinematography
- Russell Metty
- Studio
- Norma Productions, Harold Hecht Productions, Universal International Pictures
- Released
- 1948-10-30
- Running time
- 79 minutes
Cast & crew
Norman Foster Director
Robin Hughes
Reginald Sheffield
John George
Harry Wilson
Jay Novello
Frank Hagney
Al Ferguson
Colin Kenny
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Where's The Frenzy Of Fanfare? · BornBohemian · 2023-07-24
I doubt a better matchup of saint of circumstance and pure beauty and innocence can be delivered!?!?! As a Burt Lancaster and Joan Fontaine fan, to see them in this marvelous and sublime tragedy together is to be floating as a feather, a feather with a warm and burgeoning smile that floats endlessly along, ever warmer, ever more proliferating, a feather tossed against hardnesses of wind and inanity, yet never is careened or jolted, but rather, aloft, as the first all consuming rush... that awe, which envelopes us in fortune and certainty when we see the one we shall always love, for the first…
★★★★★ · and there it is · mmedefarge · 2023-12-18
49 minutes in, that patented Lancaster facial transition that is so subtle you can miss it if you blink or look away. From anger to fear to apprehension to he's really thinking it over. It's in his best films and I love him for it. and that choke in his voice toward the end. What a beautiful, brilliant actor he was! I loved those crazy camera angles when Fontaine was hallucinating. Terrific work.
noir · silver nitrate · 2025-04-25
Good acting all round and nice atmosphere of uncertanty as it unfolds. both leading actors on form
