Too Late for Tears (1949) on Netflix
A sack of money is thrown into the Palmers' car as Jane and Alan drive home from a party. Jane wants to keep it; Alan wants to call the police.
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Plot summary
Jane and Alan Palmer are driving back from a party in Los Angeles when money is flung into their car from a passing vehicle. A second car gives chase, and the Palmers lose it. The bag holds sixty thousand dollars. Jane refuses to give it up; Alan wants to hand it to the authorities, so they settle on checking it at Union Station. While Alan is at work, Danny Fuller arrives at the apartment and says the money was meant for him. Jane tells him the bag is not there and offers to split the cash with him. Alan's sister Kathy lives in the apartment next door.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Too Late for Tears (1949)
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- Producer Hunt Stromberg first wanted Joan Crawford as the murderous Jane Palmer, Kirk Douglas as Danny Fuller and Wendell Corey as Don Blake, but Lizabeth Scott got the lead when Hal B. Wallis lent her out at the request of director Byron Haskin, who had directed her in I Walk Alone (1947).
- The Film Noir Foundation's hunt for a usable print stalled in 2011 when film scholar Eddie Muller traced a 35 mm print to a collector in Baltimore who died before he could disclose where the print was kept.
- Too Late for Tears was a box-office bomb whose financial failure drove its producer, Hunt Stromberg, into bankruptcy.
- Because the 2015 restoration combined a French 35 mm print titled Le Tigresse with an American 1955 print titled Killer Bait, the film's original English-language opening and closing titles had to be rebuilt by rotoscoping fonts from an inferior 16 mm print.
