The script was written by Lillian Hellman and Mordaunt Shairp, adapted from the play by Guy Bolton. Nevins: "Neill and cinematographer Paul Ivano invest every shot with a visual style which translates Woolrich as any novel needs to be translated: with total fidelity to its essence and little if any to its literal text." Some credit must also go to Dan Duryea's interpretation of the part of Marty Blair, who "remains the most sympathetic character in the film and far worthier of the heroine than her weak and disloyal husband".The Dark Angel is a 1935 film that tells the story of three childhood friends, Kitty ( Merle Oberon), Alan ( Fredric March), and Gerald ( Herbert Marshall) who come of age in England during the First World War. Renzi, of the several contemporary "adaptations based on Woolrich's novels, Neill's film ranks among the most competently conceived and produced, even though its plot has only a superficial connection" with the original story line. However, in the opinion of biographer Thomas C. There were many differences from the original story and the film was disliked by Woolrich himself. Clair)Ĭlassed as a noteworthy film noir, Black Angel was based on Cornell Woolrich's 1943 novel of the same name and directed by Roy William Neill as his final work before retirement. Archie Twitchell as George Mitchell (as Michael Branden).Marty's subsequent attempts to contact Captain Flood are thwarted as the final minutes tick away for Kirk, but he manages to call Flood at last to a meeting at Catherine's home, where Marty confesses what had really happened in time for Flood to get the execution stayed.
Marty now has a flashback and realises that it was he himself who had strangled Mavis and then drunkenly forgotten. The girl insists that it was Marty himself who had given it her on the night the murder was discovered.
In his disappointment, Marty goes back to the bars where he used to drink and chances on a girl wearing the brooch for which he and Catherine had been searching.
On the night Catherine's husband Kirk is due to be executed, she admits to Marty that Kirk had always been the only man for her and that their own association has no future. Marty has fallen in love with Catherine during their partnership and he has given up drinking. When she is caught, Marko admits that his daughter was being blackmailed by Mavis, but the main evidence they had been looking for, a distinctive heart-shaped brooch that Marty once gave Mavis, is not there. Their suspicion is increased when Catherine recognises an envelope from Mavis's branded stationery in Marko's office she therefore decides to search it in his absence. Since Marty is a composer and pianist, while Catherine is a former singer, the two audition for a spot in Marko's club and are hired. Marty had seen Marko heading for Mavis Marlowe’s apartment on the night of the murder. Marko, whom Catherine and Marty suspect may be the real killer. Their investigation leads them to confrontations with a determined policeman, LAPD Captain Flood, and a shifty nightclub owner, Mr. Produced by Universal Pictures, it is set in Los Angeles and broadly adapted from the 1943 novel of the same title by Cornell Woolrich.Ĭatherine Bennett, a falsely convicted man's wife, together with alcoholic musician Marty Blair, team up in an attempt to clear her adulterous husband of the murder of the singer, Mavis Marlowe, who had once been Marty's wife. Black Angel is a 1946 American film noir directed as his final feature by Roy William Neill and starring Dan Duryea, June Vincent and Peter Lorre.
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