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Too Late for Tears

Name: Too Late for Tears
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Released: 1949-07-17
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 6.8

★ 6,8 /10 (97 Votes)

1949 EN 99 min

Overview

Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.

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Release date

17/07/1949

Votes

Popularity

2.4

She Got What She Wanted... With Lies... With Kisses... With Murder!

Genres

Crime Thriller

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

99 min

Lizabeth Scott

Jane Palmer

Don DeFore

Don Blake

Dan Duryea

Danny Fuller

Arthur Kennedy

Alan Palmer

Kristine Miller

Kathy Palmer

Barry Kelley

Lt. Breach

Kevin O'Morrison

Policeman (uncredited)

June Storey

Fuller's Girl (uncredited)

James Nolan

Detective Parker (uncredited)

Forbes Murray

Dr. Adams (uncredited)

Billy Halop

Boat Attendant (uncredited)

David Clarke

Jack Sharber (uncredited)

Denver Pyle

Young Man at Union Station (uncredited)

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Renee Donatt

Young Lover in Boat (uncredited)

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Jimmy Ames

Fat Man (uncredited)

Georgia Backus

Woman (uncredited)

Robert Bice

Policeman (uncredited)

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John Butler

Little Man Answering Phone (uncredited)

Jimmie Dodd

Second Car Thief (uncredited)

Richard Irving

First Car Thief (uncredited)

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Perry Ivins

Checkroom Attendant (uncredited)

Robert Kellard

Policeman (uncredited)

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George Mann

Man in Cowboy Hat (uncredited)

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John Mansfield

Carlos (uncredited)

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Alex Montoya

Mexican Officer (uncredited)

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Virginia Mullen

Woman (uncredited)

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Robert Neff

Driver of Payoff Car (uncredited)

Garry Owen

Police Officer at Switchboard (uncredited)

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Jack Shea

Policeman (uncredited)

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Brick Sullivan

Man at Baggage Claim (uncredited)

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Carl Thompson

Young Lover in Boat (uncredited)

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Harry J. Vejar

Police Lt. Rivera (uncredited)

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Patricia Wallace

Woman (uncredited)

Billy Wayne

Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)

Smoki Whitfield

Pete (uncredited)

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Paul Bradley

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Charles Flynn

Policeman (uncredited)

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Housewives can get awfully bored sometimes. Too late for Tears is directed by Byron Haskin and written by Roy Huggins. It stars Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea and Arthur Kennedy. Music is by Dale Butts and cinematography by William C. Mellor. One night Alan and Jane Palmer (Kennedy & Scott) are driving to a party out Hollywood way, when all of a sudden someone in another car tosses a suitcase filled with cash into the back seat of their car. So begins a tale of greed, betrayal and murder... Money is poison. Low budget be damned, Too Late for Tears (AKA: Killer Bait) ends up…

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Lizabeth Scott ("Jane") stumbles on a case filled with cash. She takes it home and confides in husband Arthur Kennedy who promptly deposits it in the lost luggage at Grand Central station whilst they lay low and figure out what to do. She gets greedy and when he tries to rein her in, she goes boating with him; shoots him in an onboard tussle then sets about retrieving the loot and escaping alive... Dan Duryea is quite good as her drunken, unreliable, sidekick and Don DeFore sort of appears from nowhere are her ultimate nemesis. It is quite a decent crime noir, quite tense at time, but it is wa…

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