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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.
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands: Directed by Norman Foster. With Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, Robert Newton, Lewis L. Russell. Fugitive Bill Saunders and lonely nurse Jane Wharton are crossed by fate when he hides out in her apartment.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Norman Foster
- 1948-10-30
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...
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- Norman Foster
- Crime, Drama
- Joan Fontaine
Jun 27, 2023 · Kiss the Blood Off My Hands is a 1948 American FILM NOlR 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.
- 79 min
Bill Saunders, disturbed ex-soldier, kills a man in a postwar London pub brawl. Fleeing, he hides out in the apartment of lonely nurse Jane Wharton. Later, despite misgivings about his violent nature, Jane becomes involved with Bill, who resolves to reform.
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, from 1948, is based on a novel by Gerald Butler, and was adapted by Ben Maddow and Walter Bernstein (one of the Hollywood Ten). The screenplay is by Leonardo Bercovici, with Hugh Gray credited as providing additional dialogue.
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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.
