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...Black Angel, 1946 Screenplay by Roy Chanslor, from the 1943 novel by CW Directed by Roy William Neill
...Black Angel,? novel and film, has a family resemblance to ?Phantom Lady.? A glamorous, unloving wife is strangled on the fifth anniversary of her marriage to a man she can?t stand. A husband is rudely interrogated by some loutish cops, found guilty and condemned to death. The woman who loves him struggles and connives to find the evidence that will clear him. There?s also a detective who is at first skeptical, then accepting, of the man?s innocence. (And [SPOILER] her partner in detection, who is played by the top-billed actor, turns out to be the killer...
...couple of differences: the ?Black Angel? loser is a lover of the murder victim, and the woman avenger, Catherine (blond, charisma-challenged June Vincent), is his betrayed wife. When her schlub of a two-timing spouse is sent to jail for the murder of showgirl-vocalist Mavis Marlowe (Constance Dowling), Catherine tracks down Mavis? ex, a part-time songwriter, full-time drunk named Martin Blair (Dan Duryea). ?I had to see you,? she implores, and he snaps, ?Why? Because I had a wife who needed killing. And you had a husband who took care...
...Woolrich biographer Francis M. Nevins, Jr., says this is the best film adaptation of a Woolrich novel. But ?Black Angel? the movie uses only the situation, not the soul, of the original. It de-kinks the novel?s plot - just who is the black angel here anyway? - and the result is a B-minus remake of ?Phantom Lady...
...Black Angel? movie, a man has forgotten he killed someone. In ?Fear in the Night,? a man dreams he killed someone, then wakes to find evidence indicating he really is a murderer. Vince Grayson (DeForest Kelley in his movie debut, 19 years before he became ?Bones? McCoy on ?Star Trek?) has memories of a mirrored room and a woman watching as he strangles a man. Vince?s policeman brother-in-law Cliff (Paul Kelly, who looks like the seediest possible Johnny Carson), refuses to take his complaint seriously: ?If you want me to arrest you for murdering...