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Kiss the Blood Off My Hands is a 1948 American noir-thriller film directed by Norman Foster. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Gerald Butler, it stars Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, and Robert Newton.
The film was a co-production between Tony Curtis' Curtleigh Productions and Hecht's original Harold Hecht Productions, making a comeback after its first use for 1948's Kiss the Blood Off My Hands. Hecht hired J. Lee Thompson as director and Waldo Salt, who had written the script of The Flame and the Arrow in 1949 before being blacklisted, and ...
In early 1947, Eagle-Lion Films bought the film rights to Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, hoping to shoot it with Robert Donat in the lead. [15] After the option expired, the novel's film rights were sold in mid-1947 to actor-turned-producer Burt Lancaster and his business partner, producer Harold Hecht .
Aug 16, 2020 · The title KISS THE BLOOD OFF MY HANDS was never considered too sensational for US readers. The book was released in hardcover by Farrar & Reinhart in 1946, and then a Dell Mapback in 1947 with that title.
Burt Lancaster, an ex-GI living in post-World War II London, goes on the lam after accidentally killing a man in a bar fight. With the law on his heels, he climbs through the window of a nearby ...
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- Crime, Drama
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948) - The film was the first production by Burt Lancaster and his agent Harold Hecht's new film production company, Norma Productions (co-produced through Harold Hecht Productions). It was named after Lancaster's wife at the time.
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948) - Directed by Norman Foster, produced by Norman Deming, Harold Hecht, Richard Vernon and starring Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, Robert Newton, Lewis L. Russell, Aminta Dyne, Grizelda Harvey, Jay Novello, Colin Keith-Johnston,and more...
