Too Late for Tears

Jul 17, 1949

1h 39m

★ 6.8

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

Overview

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.

Genres

Crime

Thriller

Production Companies

Hunt Stromberg Productions

United Artists

Too Late for Tears Trailers

Cast

Jane Palmer

Lizabeth Scott

Don Blake

Don DeFore

Danny Fuller

Dan Duryea

Alan Palmer

Arthur Kennedy

Kathy Palmer

Kristine Miller

Lt. Breach

Barry Kelley

Policeman (uncredited)

Kevin O'Morrison

Fuller's Girl (uncredited)

June Storey

Detective Parker (uncredited)

James Nolan

Dr. Adams (uncredited)

Forbes Murray

Boat Attendant (uncredited)

Billy Halop

Jack Sharber (uncredited)

David Clarke

Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, Eleanor, suspects he is actually running away from their unsuccessful marriage. Aided by a newspaperman, Danny Leggett, Eleanor sets out to locate her husband. The killer is also looking for him, and keeps close tabs on Eleanor.

5.9

The Whistler

Mar 30, 1944

A guilt-ridden man blames himself for his wife's death and secretly pays an assassin to kill him. But then he finds out that his wife isn't dead at all. And now the assassin is on his trail, with no way to call off the hit.

6.0

Naked Alibi

Oct 1, 1954

Questioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners, is beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Next night, Lieut. Parks is murdered; Willis is the only suspect in the eyes of tough Chief Conroy, who pursues him doggedly despite lack of evidence. The obsessed Conroy is dismissed from the force, but continues to harass Willis, who flees to a sleazy town on the Mexican border. Of course, Conroy follows. But which is crazy, Conroy or Willis?

5.8

Roadblock

Sep 17, 1951

An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.

6.1

Hoodlum Empire

Apr 15, 1952

It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide network of crime. The picture, which was shot in a semi-documentary style, was inspired by the Kefauver investigations of 1950-51.

5.2

Over-Exposed

Apr 1, 1956

This titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of "B" films that Cleo Moore starred in at Columbia. Moore plays Lila Crane, an ambitious clip-joint floozie turned photographer with flexible morals and a penchant for fast money.

6.4

Out of the Fog

Jun 14, 1941

A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.

5.9

Walk a Crooked Mile

Sep 2, 1948

A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation. To investigate the case more efficiently, Dan O'Hara, an FBI agent, and Philip Grayson, a Scotland Yard sleuth, join forces. Will they manage to stop the spy ring from achieving their aim?

6.7

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Aug 20, 1948

When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship with John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. Now years later, he desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family.

6.3

Brooklyn's Finest

Mar 4, 2010

Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and wrong.

6.6

Crossfire

Aug 15, 1947

A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?

7.1

For Love and Honor

Dec 13, 2007

Ali Osman is a former bully of city of Istanbul. But lately he gives up bully and starts to operate a synthetic pitch. He often meets his old friends, former bullies, too. One day Ali Osman receives a news which is related with his previous passionate life. Then the whole action stats as a chain of events.