35mm

Angel Face

Otto Preminger
Part of

55th New York Film Festival

September 29 - October 15, 2017

In Preminger’s seminal noir, Mitchum plays an ambulance driver caught up in the machinations of a femme fatale (Jean Simmons); after becoming her chauffeur and lover, can he extricate himself from her devious schemes before it’s too late?

DIRECTOR
Otto Preminger
YEAR
1953
COUNTRY
USA
RUNTIME
91 minutes
FORMAT
35mm

Robert Mitchum finds himself caught up in the machinations of a femme fatale in Preminger’s seminal noir. When ambulance driver Frank Jessup is summoned to a Beverly Hills mansion after wealthy Catherine Tremayne is evidently poisoned, he enters the orbit of her enterprising stepdaughter, Diane (Jean Simmons), who persuades Frank to quit his job and become her chauffeur—and ultimately her lover. But after sensing there may be a devious agenda behind her gentle facade, he must find a way to extricate himself from her schemes before it’s too late. Mitchum is as sympathetic and charismatic as ever in this gripping thriller to rival Preminger’s other great noirs (Laura, Whirlpool, Where the Sidewalk Ends).

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