BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

gullwing592003 I found & bought a compilation DVD with 9 movies on 3 discs titled "Classic Film Noir" in 2009 & this is one of the titles & my most favorite one. It has a very good plot & storyline. I never get enough of this film it's classic film noir. It has some twists & surprises. I won't reveal any of the story to those who haven't seen it but I will say that this film has a very good & compelling story that will keep you on the edge of your seat & surprise you in the end. It has an excellent cast with Lizabeth Scott, Dan Duryea & Don DeFore, Kristine Miller & Arthur Kennedy. I like the storyline about a couple who unexpectedly find a suitcase containing $60,000. This actually happened to me in 1988 I unexpectedly stumbled onto a backpack containing $60,000 in cash in my mothers house (she knew nothing about ) I was visiting her & went into the spare bedroom closet looking for the stuffed toy dog & instead found this $60,000. I smuggled it out of her house as I was leaving to say my good byes & drove back home. As soon as I got home I locked the doors & began counting the money & it took me 3 hours to count it totaling $60,000 I recall the money made my heart race & made me feel powerful but also I was a nervous wreck I kept the money for 2 days & no I didn't keep it as much as I wanted to. I didn't want my mother to find it & I didn't go to the lengths & extremes to keep it like Lizabeth Scott's character did in the movie. So I can relate to this movie because I know what $60,000 in cash looks & feels like. How the couple found the money is a bit farfetched & unrealistic & hard to accept & swallow.. But other than that it's a very good movie & one of the best film noirs of all time.

Rainey Dawn A true film noir and a very exciting watch. Super casting, thrilling story. Lizabeth Scott in one of her best performances. Well worth watching if you love a good crime drama.Jane Palmer (Lizabeth Scott) and her husband Danny Fuller (Dan Duryea) are an average couple that has gone out one evening. While driving along in their convertible, a suitcase is hurled into their backseat and next they find themselves being chased. Once the car chase is over and they are safe they realize they have $60,000 in their possession and must figure out what to do with it. Jane's true colors starts shining as she refuses to give the money to the police and tell them what happened - Jane is willing to murder if it means she can keep the money.8.5/10

seymourblack-1 It's not unusual for a story to begin with a situation in which a character suddenly finds themselves in possession of a sum of money that isn't theirs but what makes this movie so enthralling is the nature of the character in question. As a child, this woman's experience of being brought up in a middle class family that couldn't "keep up with the Joneses" scarred her mentally and emotionally with the result that when her opportunity to become wealthy came along, she wasn't going to stop at anything to achieve her most cherished ambition. Murder, manipulation and deception are just part of her stock-in-trade as she wilfully damages and destroys the lives of the people around her in a way that's incredibly ruthless, cold-hearted and self-serving.One dark evening, Alan Palmer (Arthur Kennedy) and his wife Jane (Lizabeth Scott) are driving along a quiet mountain road outside Los Angeles when a bag full of cash is suddenly thrown into the back seat of their car from a vehicle that's travelling in the opposite direction. After being chased by another car for a little while, they successfully escape and head home where they discover that the bag contains $60,000. Alan is nervous about having the cash in his possession and wants to hand it in to the police as soon as possible but Jane is determined to keep the money and so persuades her husband to take a little time before making a final decision on what to do with their windfall. A little later, Alan leaves the bag in a locker at Union Station and puts the ticket in his jacket pocket.Next morning, Danny Fuller (Dan Duryea) who says he's a private detective, calls at the Palmers' apartment and tells Jane that he's come to collect the cash. She tells him that the money's already been handed in to the police and so he leaves but promises to return if her story doesn't check out. When he inevitably returns, they initially argue but then come to an agreement to share the cash. As Jane knows that Alan would never go along with this arrangement, she kills her husband at a nearby boating lake and persuades Danny to help her dispose of the body. Jane reports Alan's disappearance to the police and tells her sister-in-law Kathy (Kristine Miller) that she thinks he's taken off to Mexico with a girlfriend. Kathy, who lives in the same apartment building, doesn't believe this story and becomes very suspicious of Jane.A man called Don Blake (Don DeFore) who introduces himself as an old wartime buddy of Alan's, soon becomes friendly with Kathy who now has Alan's locker ticket in her possession and together they attempt to find out what's really happened to her brother.The plot of "Too Late For Tears" (aka "Killer Bait") is complicated by a succession of identity issues which begin with the way in which the money comes into the possession of the Palmers and then becomes even more involved as neither Danny Fuller nor Don Blake are who they originally claim to be (with Danny also posing as Alan at one stage). The main focus of the movie, however, is on its extraordinary femme fatale whose greed for wealth knows no limits. Her ability to manipulate men by either acting seductively or threatening them in some way is remarkably successful with one notable exception and the way in which she overwhelms Danny, sees him transform from being a menacing character to one who becomes fearful and very malleable.Lizabeth Scott takes full advantage of the opportunities that her role offers as she skilfully switches her behaviours and expressions whenever the need arises and in the process, makes Jane's wickedness and motivations absolutely clear. Good performances from the rest of the cast (especially Dan Duryea) add greatly to the enjoyment but ultimately, this is Lizabeth Scott's movie all the way.

Dalbert Pringle "Oh, what a tangled web we weave..." If you ask me - I'd say that Lizabeth Scott playing Jane Palmer, the ruthless, conniving femme fatale, in this 1949 Crime/Thriller just didn't have the acting chops to cut the mustard. Not only did I find Scott to be very unconvincing in her part, but I also found her portrayal to be quite annoying, as well.I think that Kristine Miller, who played the Kathy Palmer character in the story, would have been a much more competent and believable actress to tackle the Jane Palmer role.For me, the highlight of this run-of-the-mill picture of greed and treachery was when mean, tough-guy, Dan Fuller, slapped Jane's pretty, little face but good, in order to get her to fess-up to the whereabouts of the $60,000.All-in-all - Too Late For Tears was just another (of many) easily forgettable Crime-Dramas from Hollywood's apparent heyday.