| Black Angel | |
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| Directed by | Roy William Neill |
| Produced by | Tom McKnight Roy William Neill |
| Written by | Cornell Woolrich (novel) Roy Chanslor |
| Starring | Dan Duryea June Vincent Peter Lorre Broderick Crawford Constance Dowling Wallace Ford Junius Matthews |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 2, 1946 (U.S. release) |
| Running time | 81 min |
| Language | English |
Black Angel is a 1946 film noir, based on the novel The Black Angel by Cornell Woolrich. The film was director Roy William Neill's last film.
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A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine (June Vincent), and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin (Dan Duryea), team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife. Their investigation leads them to face-to-face confrontations with a determined policeman (Broderick Crawford) and a shifty nightclub owner (Peter Lorre), who Catherine and Martin suspect may be the real killer.
Dark City: The Film Noir, by Spencer Selby, calls Black Angel: "Important, stylish B-noir, featuring Dan Duryea as the ironic central character."
Writer Cornell Woolrich hated this adaption of his story which, aside from the conclusion, differed greatly from his book.
Black Angel is referenced in the 2006 noir-influenced film The Black Dahlia starring Scarlett Johansson and Hilary Swank. It is the movie shown playing at the cinema featured in the rainy street scene.