Black Angel

Year: 1946

Grade: B

Country: USA

Director: Neill

Review

film noir starring dan duryea. this one starts out in a sort of odd way because the man who is wrongly convicted isn’t the lead, as is the norm with film-noir. the relationship between duryea and vincent is convincing and the end of the film is touching, but less dark than i would have preferred. i would have liked the husband to have been killed and have duryea’s confession come too late. the femme fatale in this one was the bottle (listen to gil scott-heron for more on this).