What: Angel Face is director Otto Preminger's 1952 noir classic, starring Jean Simmons and Robert Mitchum. The femme fatale is Diane Tremayne. If she sounds posh and spoiled, it's because she is. Frank Jessup is not above some scheming himself, but he's no match for Diane.
Comparable to: It's tempting to draw comparisons to Preminger's Laura, the director's best-known noir, but Angel Face has more in common with a different Gene Tierney-starring film --- Leave Her to Heaven.
You might not like it if: You expect another Laura. This is less sharply biting and more coldly calculating.
How to get it: Buy it or borrow it.
Connection to previous Wreckage: Although I think Angel Face is delicious, Laura is probably my favorite noir film (that dialogue!). It was Rec. #193.
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