Jean Simmons' fascinating interpretation of an uncharacteristic role is the main drawing card of Otto Preminger's Angel Face. The daughter of Charles Treymayne (Herbert Marshall), who remarried a wealthy woman (Barbara O'Neil), Diane Treymayne's (Simmons) angelic countenance masks an unbridled psychotic who'll let nothing stand in the way of her happiness. Diane arranges for Catherine's death, making it look like an auto accident. Coveting family chauffeur Frank Jessup (Robert Mitchum), Diane steals Frank away from his ...
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Jean Simmons' fascinating interpretation of an uncharacteristic role is the main drawing card of Otto Preminger's Angel Face. The daughter of Charles Treymayne (Herbert Marshall), who remarried a wealthy woman (Barbara O'Neil), Diane Treymayne's (Simmons) angelic countenance masks an unbridled psychotic who'll let nothing stand in the way of her happiness. Diane arranges for Catherine's death, making it look like an auto accident. Coveting family chauffeur Frank Jessup (Robert Mitchum), Diane steals Frank away from his sweetheart Mary (Mona Freeman) and forces him to become her spiritual accomplice in her stepmother's murder. And when Diane finally realizes that she'll never, ever, be able to hold Frank, she... well, enough said. If Angel Face doesn't look like a typical early-1950s RKO Radio film, it may be because its director was borrowed from 20th Century-Fox, and its cinematographer (Harry Stradling) was a loan-out from Sam Goldwyn. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Mona Freeman, Jean Simmons, Robert Mitchum. New. 1952 Run time: 91. Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! Delivery Confirmation included for all orders in the US.
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"Angel Face" is a riveting film noir about the allure and danger of sexuality. Otto Preminger directed this 1953 film set in Beverly Hills and starring Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons. Mitchum portrays Frank Jessup, a WW II veteran and former race car driver who dreams of owning his own repair shop for sports cars. Simmons portrays Diane Tremaine, 19, who lives a life of wealth with her father and stepmother. She loves her father and hates her stepmother and is looking forward to her eventual large inheritance. Diane is a smoldering femme fatale who exudes both sex and violence and is both ruthless and manipulative in getting her way,
The film tensely develops the relationship between Diane and Frank, who has another lady friend, Mary, played by Mona Freeman. Unfortunately Frank is unable to walk away from Diane in spite of his better judgment. The film works to a large and unexpected climax.
Many admirers of film rate "Angel Face" highly, both as film noir and more generally in the class of all Hollywood films. The film is not as well known as it deserves to be. I was fortunate to see "Angel Face" as part of "Noir City, D.C.", a film festival held annually at the AFI Silver Theater that I have been attending for many years. Foster Hirsch, a scholar of film noir introduced the showing and helped me appreciate the film. This is an outstanding movie for lovers of film noir.
