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Too Late for Tears

Name: Too Late for Tears
Director: Byron Haskin
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Released: 1949
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy, Kristine Miller

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.

1949 · Directed by Byron Haskin · 99 min · Crime · Thriller · 10 frames

Tagline

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

Crew

Screenplay: Roy Huggins
Cinematography: William C. Mellor
Edited by: Harry Keller
Music: R. Dale Butts
Produced by: Hunt Stromberg

Cast

Lizabeth Scott as Jane Palmer
Don DeFore as Don Blake
Dan Duryea as Danny Fuller
Arthur Kennedy as Alan Palmer
Kristine Miller as Kathy Palmer
Barry Kelley as Lt. Breach
Kevin O'Morrison as Policeman (uncredited)
June Storey as Fuller's Girl (uncredited)
James Nolan as Detective Parker (uncredited)
Forbes Murray as Dr. Adams (uncredited)

Production

Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studios: Hunt Stromberg Productions, United Artists
Themes: femme fatale, film noir, bag of money, scheming wife, malicious, wife kills husband

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