Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948)
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Joan Fontaine
Jane Wharton
Burt Lancaster
Bill Saunders
Robert Newton
Harry Carter
Lewis L. Russell
Tom Widgery
Aminta Dyne
Landlady
Grizelda Hervey
Mrs. Paton
Grizelda Harvey
Mrs. Paton
Jay Novello
Sea Captain
Colin Keith-Johnston
Judge
Reginald Sheffield
Superintendent
Campbell Copelin
Publican
Leyland Hodgson
Tipster
Gerald Butler
Writer
Norman Foster
Director
Peter Forbes
Young Father
John George
Midget (uncredited)
Leonardo Bercovici
Writer
Ben Maddow
Writer
Melinda Byron
Girl Child (uncredited)
Al Ferguson
Marker (uncredited)
Walter Bernstein
Writer
Hugh Gray
Writer
Frank Hagney
Seaman (uncredited)
Richard Vernon
Producer
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 30, 1948
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 19m
Content RatingNR
Filming LocationsCalifornia, United States of America
Genres
Wiki.
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 faced minor opposition from fundamentalist groups in the United States and the Commonwealth, with regards to its gory title. In some markets, the film was released under the alternate title The Unafraid (in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and smaller towns in the United States) or Blood on My Hands (in the United Kingdom).The film was the first production by Lancaster and his agent Harold Hecht's new film production company, Norma Productions (co-produced through Harold Hecht Productions). Kiss the Blood Off My Hands was financed and distributed through a one-picture deal with Universal-International Pictures, in exchange for Lancaster appearing in the studio's production of All My Sons. The film was set in London, England but was shot almost entirely at Universal-International Pictures' Sound Stage 21 from March to May 1948. Some exterior scenes were shot on location at Los Angeles' Griffith Park Zoo and Hollywood Park Racetrack.The movie premiered on Friday, October 29, 1948, at Loew's Criterion Theater in New York City, and opened to over three hundred theaters in the United States starting on October 30 and throughout November 1948. In promotion for the film, Lancaster embarked on a tour performing a trapeze and acrobatic vaudeville act with his partner Nick Cravat. Some of the pair's stunts would be recreated and filmed in Norma Productions' next picture, the swashbuckler The Flame and the Arrow.