KISS THE BLOOD OFF MY HANDS - BLU

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• Release Year: 1948
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
• Plot: Screen legends Joan Fontaine (Rebecca, Suspicion, The Bigamist) and Burt Lancaster (Desert Fury, I Walk Alone, The Train) star in Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, a classic film noir about fate and love amongst the most unlikely individuals. Former POW Bill Saunders (Lancaster), now living in England, is scarred with unstable and violent tendencies. After killing a man in a bar fight, he flees the scene and manages to find cover in the home of Nurse Jane Wharton (Fontaine), who agrees to take him in and believes his story that the killing was an accident. Now in love, Nurse Wharton tries to secure Saunders a job delivering medical supplies when he’s released from prison after serving time for fighting with a police officer. Things take a turn, however, when a racketeer (Robert Newton, Odd Man Out) who witnessed Saunders’ murder threatens to turn him into the police unless he agrees to assist in a crime. Beautifully shot in glorious black-and-white by the great Russell Metty (Touch of Evil, The Lady Gambles) and stylishly directed by Norman Foster (Journey into Fear, Woman on the Run).
• Cast: Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, Robert Newton, Lewis L. Russell, Aminta Dyne, Grizelda Hervey, Jay Novello, Colin Keith-Johnston, Reginald Sheffield, Campbell Copelin, Leyland Hodgson, Peter Hobbes, Harry Allen, Jimmy Aubrey, Timothy Bruce, George Bunny, Melinda Byron, Valerie Cardew, Jack Carol, Harry Cording, Leslie Denison, Tom Dillon, David Dunbar, Al Ferguson, Art Foster, James Fowler, Fred Fox, John George, Richard Glynn, Harold Goodwin, Arthur Gould-Porter, Joseph Granby, Duke Green, Frank Hagney, Bobbie Hale, Mildred Hale, Alec Harford, Kenneth Harvey, Keith Hitchcock, Wesley Hopper, Robin Hughes, Tommy Hughes, Kenner G. Kemp, Colin Kenny, Suzanne Kerr, James Logan, Ola Lorraine, Don McCracken, David McMahon, Charles McNaughton, Lora Lee Michel, Tom Pilkington, Felippa Rock, Wallace Scott, Jack Stoney, Brick Sullivan, Harry Tenbrook, Marilyn Williams, Harry Wilson, Ben Wright, Norman Foster, Leonardo Bercovici, Ben Maddow, Walter Bernstein, Hugh Gray, Gerald Butler
• Director: Norman Foster
• Runtime: 1:19
• Company: Norma Productions, Universal Pictures, Universal International Pictures (UI), Universal Studios, Kino Lorber
• Media Format: Movie