Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands is a 1948 black-and-white film noir, directed by Norman Foster. The film features Burt Lancaster, Joan Fontaine, and others. Bill Saunders (Lancaster), 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 (Joan Fontaine), who believes his story that the ... more

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands is a 1948 black-and-white film noir, directed by Norman Foster. The film features Burt Lancaster, Joan Fontaine, and others. Bill Saunders (Lancaster), 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 (Joan Fontaine), who believes his story that the killing was an accident. Soon, Saunders is involved in another fight - this time with a police officer. He ends up behind bars, but Jane, who is now in love with Saunders, gets him a job driving a truck delivering drugs for her medical clinic when he's released. Meanwhile, hoodlum Harry Carter, who witnessed the earlier bar fight, threatens to expose Saunders to the police. In return for his silence, Carter demands that Saunders cooperate with a planned robbery of his next drug shipment. When Saunders does do the delivery, Jane rides with him,... less