Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

1948 · 79 min · EN · NR · 6.6 (24 votes)
Dir. Norman Foster · Starring Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, Robert Newton, Lewis L. Russell, Aminta Dyne, Grizelda Harvey · Music Miklós Rózsa

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Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent, gets into a bar fight in which he in kills a man and then flees. He hides out with the assistance of a nurse, Jane Wharton, who believes his story that the killing was an accident.

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A palpable sense of dread permeates this dark thriller. The rain-slicked streets and shadowy interiors amplify the protagonists' desperate attempts to outrun their past. It's a brooding, atmospheric descent into moral ambiguity.

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