What: Angel Face is a 1952 noir classic from director Otto Preminger, 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: Hear from Frank Jessup in Quote from a Fictional Character #52.
Although I think Angel Face is delicious, my favorite noir film is Laura (that dialogue!). It was Rec. #193.
[Originally posted 4/10/13.]
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