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Too Late for Tears

Too Late for Tears

1949
Drama, Mystery
1h 39m
Through a fluke circumstance a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and she is determined to hold onto it even it if means murder. (imdb)
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Too Late for Tears

1949
Drama, Mystery
1h 39m
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Rated 25 Apr 2010
58
55th
Entertaining in all the ways a noir should be, but the 100 minute runtime felt like 30 minutes too many. DeFore's performance may have had something to do with it.
Rated 12 Jun 2011
85
84th
Maybe not the most sophisticated story (some of the plot details are far too convenient) but for a noir fan, this is the stuff. Lizabeth Scott is amazing as the femme fatale, conniving and ruthless, using her sexuality as a weapon when she needs to, and with just a glimmer of vulnerability. This is the best I've ever seen Duryea, a character with more depth than you'd at first suspect. The interactions between them are dynamite, and features some crisp dialogue. An edgy, fun, underrated classic.
Rated 18 Oct 2011
78
69th
Jut a hair overlong, but Duryea is always a joy to watch, and Scott is magnificent.
Rated 19 Nov 2011
79
57th
The film starts off with a couple getting a bag of money randomly thrown into their back seat, and almost immediately the bickering begins as to whether they should turn it in or keep it. I don't normally like these kinds of plots with unreasonable people making stupid decisions but this film has an interesting take on the concept. Despite a few too many coincidences the plot is well constructed and the actors do a good job making their characters likable or hateable, as the case may be.
Rated 26 Dec 2011
84
87th
This is a great film noir. I had never heard of this film before. It surprised me how good of a movie it turned out to be. It has some good twists and turns.
Rated 26 Oct 2014
23
74th
cheap and tawdry, just like i like my noir. love the audience reaction whenever lizabeth scott had a malevolent twinkle in her eye.
Rated 13 Aug 2016
95
91st
A fantastic brassy noir headlined by a ballsy performance from Scott, as an apparently 'normal' woman who finds seemingly unlimited (and terrifying) reserves of nerve as she negotiates her way through a low-level crime syndicate. While it works well on its own terms, it's also a fascinating inversion of noir tropes, seeing all events through femme fatale Scott's eyes, especially as she deals with schlub Duryea, who is also excellent in what would traditionally (in the 40s) be a leading role.
Rated 26 Mar 2017
71
79th
This is a fun nasty little movie. Lizabeth Scott is so evil and vicious in this that even the harden criminals are taken aback. The ending of this is pretty satisfying. This is well worth a watch, highly entertaining, and recommended.
Rated 14 Oct 2018
85
92nd
Great film noir. Main character was cunning but flawed in her inability to plan ahead and it ended up being her downfall.
Rated 07 May 2020
68
88th
Maybe not an A-list Noir but very good regardless. The script is clever and takes the film to surprising directions and changes focus to keep things interesting. Lizabeth Scott's Jane is up there in the pantheon of most ruthless Femme Fatales. Co-stars include Noir faves Duryea AND Kennedy. Don DeFore was a fresh face to me, but instantly likable in his role - even though it was easy to guess the character's background. There's also some nice LA location shooting; what's not to like?
Rated 01 Jun 2020
94
74th
Good film noir with a memorable cutthroat femme fatale, played by Lizbeth Scott.
Rated 21 Jul 2021
45
18th
The film hinges upon Scott’s performance but she isn’t nearly convincing enough as the manipulative femme fatale to sell the implausibilities of the story, making little use of her femininity and often looking more clueless than scheming. It’s thus not a particularly effective noir, especially with its weightless reveal and silly death scene at the end. Dan Duryea is rather good as her lowlife mark.
Rated 10 Aug 2021
81
78th
This certainly made an impression. The story develops at the right pace, there are multiple slight intriguing touches and very little drag. Scott is one of the best femme fatales and Duryea's entry is enough to win one over.
Rated 23 Nov 2021
60
89th
Lizabeth Scott as a bad bad lady. That had a lot of appeal, though i didn't feel any of the other involved enhanced the thrill of her bad ways, so some of this felt flat within its noir philosophy. So be sure to love Scott before you venture into this one. Or perhaps learn to love her because of Too Late for Tears (1949).
Rated 19 Feb 2023
55
39th
Even below-average noirs usually does it for me but not this one.

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