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  • Actor Burt Lancaster holds Joan Fontaine's arms; she looks at him somewhat distrustfully.
  • Actor Burt Lancaster covers Joan Fontaine's mouth and holds down one of her arms; she is lying in bed.
  • Actor Joan Fontaine adjusts the bow on her collar; actor Burt Lancaster in the somewhat out-of-focus background stares at her.
  • Actors Joan Fontaine and Burt Lancaster sit together in the back of a car.
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KISS THE BLOOD OFF MY HANDS

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Monday, August 12

(1948, Norman Foster) After an accidental killing in a teeming pub, twisted ex-POW Burt Lancaster runs frantically over, under, around and through the London waterfront, finding refuge with nurse Joan Fontaine. Enter blackmailer Robert Newton. 35mm. Approx. 79 min.

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“Superior direction, first-rate acting… An intensely moody melodrama.”
– Variety

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