Too Late for Tears

About Too Late for Tears

Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.

Byron Haskin's Too Late for Tears is a 1949 crime thriller film. Its themes are film noir, femme fatale, malicious, and bag of money.

Lizabeth Scott stars as Jane Palmer, Don DeFore as Don Blake, Dan Duryea as Danny Fuller, and Arthur Kennedy as Alan Palmer. It runs 99 minutes and was released in July 1949.

The screenplay is by Roy Huggins. In the United States it streams on Artiflix, Brew, and Fandor Amazon Channel.

Double Indemnity, The Killing, and Blonde Ice make useful companions to Too Late for Tears, all filed under scheming wife. TMDB voters put it at 6.8 out of 10 across 99 votes.