Angel Face

Starring: Otto Preminger, Robert Mitchum Dvd Release: 11th January, 2005 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Angel Face is a 1952 black-and-white film shot in the film noir style. The film was directed by Otto Preminger & is one of his many films noir that also include Laura, Where the Sidewalk Ends & Fallen Angel. The movie was filmed on location in Beverly Hills, California. Dimitri Tiomkin composed the music for the film. // Frank Jessup, an ambulance driver, meets 19-year-old Diane Tremayne while attending to her rich step mother after a strange accident. Diane is immediately attracted to former race car driver Frank & plans to use him to kill for her. When Diane follows Frank to his favorite diner, he tells her what he really wants to do is open a garage. Diane attempts to lure Frank with money & talks her father & stepmother to hire him as a chauffer. While working for the family Frank pitches the idea of a garage to Miss Wilson, who likes the idea. Diane finds out & instead tells Frank that the step mother hates her & has no intention of helping Frank with the finances. When Diane finally suggests that the pair team up to kill her step mother, Frank has enough & attempts to leave.

Otto Ludwig Preminger was a film director. Born in Vienna, of assimilated Jewish ancestry, he worked with Max Reinhardt before emigrating to America. At first he directed & acted for 20th Century Fox, his Austrian accent typecasting him as a screen Nazi. After the war, he became one of the most consistent Hollywood directors of the 1950s & early 1960s - delivering intelligent & entertaining films, often literary adaptations, albeit rather melodramatic or heavy-going on occasion. Notable films include Anatomy of a Murder with James Stewart & Ben Gazzara, Advise & Consent with an on-form Charles Laughton & Bonjour Tritesse with David Niven & Deborah Kerr. Through a relationship with Gypsy Rose Lee he had one child, the screenwriter Eric Lee Preminger. Otto Preminger died in 1986 & was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, New York. Preminger received one Oscar nomination for Best Picture for Anatomy of a Murder. He was twice nominated for the best director award for Laura & for The Cardinal. Posters Of In Harms Way

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Robert Mitchum was an American film actor & native of Bridgeport, Connecticut who is largely remembered for his starring roles in several major works of the film noir genre. His other notable films were generally thrillers & westerns. With his imposing physical presence & rumbling voice, he was particularly well-suited to play menacing figures, but he was quite successful in tempering this with an underlying aspect of raw intelligence. A 1949 drug conviction & short prison sentence for marijuana posession sidetracked his career for a few years in the early 1950s. He also had several noteworthy television appearances. Mitchum was a workman & professional boxer before going to Hollywood in 1943. The Story of G,I. Joe -- Oscar nomination. Posters Of James Dean

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