By Signal Staff
Classic film noir returns to Santa Clarita Valley residents’ screens this weekend as Buzz Classic Movies presents a Saturday night showing of “Too Late for Tears.”
The 1949 film has earned a 100% “fresh” rating from the critics based on five reviews, and a 68% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes’ “Popcornmeter” based on more than 500 ratings.
“A woman (Lizabeth Scott) kills her husband and plots with a private eye (Dan Duryea) after someone tosses a moneybag into her car,” says the Rotten Tomatoes summary of the movie.
“Despite an involved plot and an occasional overabundance of palaver, not all of which is bright, this yarn about a cash-hungry dame, who doesn’t let men or conscience stand in her way, is an adult and generally suspenseful adventure,” critic A.H. Weller wrote in a 2015 New York Times review.
“[Lizabeth Scott’s] performance as the ruthless Jane Palmer remains one of the genre’s meatiest and devious since the film revolves exclusively around her actions and not those of her male co-stars,” critic Nicholas Bell wrote in a review for ioncinema.com in 2020.
“Too Late for Tears” streams at 8 p.m. Saturday on The Signal’s streaming channel, The Buzz, available at buzzscv.com as well as streaming platforms including Roku and Apple TV.
