Black Angel is a 1946 black-and-white film noir mystery film based on the novel by Cornell Woolrich. It was directed by Roy William Neill, who directed many of the Sherlock Holmes film series. This was his last film.
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine (June Vincent), and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin (Dan Duryea) team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife. Their investigati...
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Black Angel is a 1946 black-and-white film noir mystery film based on the novel by Cornell Woolrich. It was directed by Roy William Neill, who directed many of the Sherlock Holmes film series. This was his last film.
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine (June Vincent), and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin (Dan Duryea) team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife. Their investigation leads them to face-to-face confrontations with a determined policeman (Broderick Crawford) and a shifty nightclub owner (Peter Lorre), whom Catherine and Martin suspect may be the real killer.
Dark City: The Film Noir, by Spencer Selby, calls Black Angel: "Important, stylish B-noir, featuring Dan Duryea as the ironic central character."
Writer Cornell Woolrich hated this adaption of his story which, aside from the conclusion, differed greatly from his book.
Black Angel is referenced in the 2006 noir-influenced film The Black Dahlia starring...
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