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Angel Face is a 1953 American film noir directed by Otto Preminger, starring Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons, and featuring Leon Ames and Barbara O'Neil. [2][3] It was filmed on location in Beverly Hills, California. [1][4] Plot. Frank Jessup is an ambulance driver who dreams of running his own repair shop for sportscars.
Dec 4, 2010 · The end result was Simmons had to make three films for Hughes of which “Angel Face” was squeezed in when she only had eighteen days left on her contract. Preminger brought in screenwriters Frank Nugent and Oscar Millard to rewrite the early Chester Erskine script originally, and blandly called “The Murder.”
'Angel Face' is a film noir crime drama, made in 1952, the last noir directed by Otto Preminger and starring Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons. Although not well received on its initial release, 'Angel Face' has grown steadily in reputation.
Angel Face is a 1953 American film noir directed by Otto Preminger, starring Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons, and featuring Leon Ames and Barbara O'Neil. [1] [2] It was filmed on location in Beverly Hills, California. [3] Plot. Frank Jessup is an ambulance driver who dreams of running his own repair shop for sportscars.
- Otto Preminger
- Frank NugentOscar Millard
- Otto Preminger
- Chester Erskine
Toward the end of Otto Preminger’s Angel Face, the young Diane Tremayne (Jean Simmons) walks wistfully through the empty mansion she’s about to close up, reflecting upon the death and destruction she’s caused, piano music and distant choral voices escorting her through the halls and doorways like scheming angels. It’s an unusually ...
After Robert Mitchum got fed up with repeated re-takes in which director Otto Preminger ordered him to slap Jean Simmons across the face, he turned around and slapped Preminger, asking whether it was this way he wanted it.
Feb 14, 2007 · An exploration of sexual power and obsession, Angel Face is a quintessential film noir, starring the young Jean Simmons as a wide-eyed murderess (a role that would become associated in later decades with Tuesday Weld).
