Too Late for Tears (1949) | Directed by Byron Haskin - Full Movie

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.

Too Late for Tears is a 1949 film noir directed by Byron Haskin and starring Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, and Arthur Kennedy. It concerns a ruthless femme fatale who steals a suitcase containing US$60,000 ($652,600 today). The screenplay was written by Roy Huggins, developed from a serial he wrote for the Saturday Evening Post.

The film was reissued as Killer Bait in 1955. Too Late for Tears has been in the public domain for many years; there are several different edits of the film with different running times. On January 25, 2014, a restored 35mm print was premiered by the Film Noir Foundation at Noir City 12 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. The film was restored by UCLA Film and Television Archive and the Film Noir Foundation, with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association providing some of the necessary funding. The restoration combined 35mm dupe negative elements from France with some material from surviving 35mm and 16mm prints.

Directed by: Byron Haskin
Screenplay by: Roy Huggins
Based on: April 1947 serial in Saturday Evening Post, July 1947 novel by Roy Huggins
Produced by: Hunt Stromberg
Starring: Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy, Kristine Miller
Cinematography: William C. Mellor
Edited by: Harry Keller
Music by: R. Dale Butts
Production company: Hunt Stromberg Productions
Distributed by: United Artists
Release date: August 13, 1949 (United States)
Running time: 100 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English