Product: Too Late for Tears (1949)
Rating: 3.0
Good film noir, but Alpha Video version is very shoddy print
Beware. There are two (maybe more) versions of this film on DVD. The Alpha Video release of this is a really shoddy print, with video jumps and skips all over the place. There is dialogue for which you only hear the tail end of a number of times; this is really irritating.The film itself is a solid decent effort; Dan Duryea and Lizabeth Scott are fine, and the standard film noir story of a femme fatale, greed, money, and murder is carried out with aplomb by the two leads, with no thanks/help from Don DeFore as the good guy who is just too goofy to be credible. Arthur Kennedy is OK too, as is Kristine Miller. But naturally, the movie belongs to Duryea and Scott.From what I understand, the Image print is not too great either. Not sure; haven't seen it. But the Alpha Video print is definitely a must to avoid. The reason I gave this three stars is because the movie itself is, as mentioned, pretty good. Too bad about the lousy print, though.