Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Martin Bradley The title might suggest a weepie of sorts but "Too Late for Tears" is a film noir and a fairly mediocre one at that. It's actually got a very good story (by Roy Huggins from his 'Saturday Evening Post' serial), but the treatment is poor. Lizabeth Scott is the greedy femme fatale who will stop at nothing, including murder, to hold onto the bag of money that lands in her lap, or at least in her car. Scott was never much of an actress and she's terrible here. As the blackmailer whose money she steals Dan Duryea is his usual excellent self and there's a nice supporting turn from Arthur Kennedy as Scott's sap of her husband. As I said it's got a decent enough story but director Byron Haskin wasn't the man to do anything with it and it just limps along to its rather torturous conclusion.

gullwing592003 I found & bought a compilation DVD with 9 movies on 3 discs titled "Classic Film Noir" in 2009 & this is one of the titles & my most favorite one. It has a very good plot & storyline. I never get enough of this film it's classic film noir. It has some twists & surprises. I won't reveal any of the story to those who haven't seen it but I will say that this film has a very good & compelling story that will keep you on the edge of your seat & surprise you in the end. It has an excellent cast with Lizabeth Scott, Dan Duryea & Don DeFore, Kristine Miller & Arthur Kennedy. I like the storyline about a couple who unexpectedly find a suitcase containing $60,000. This actually happened to me in 1988 I unexpectedly stumbled onto a backpack containing $60,000 in cash in my mothers house (she knew nothing about ) I was visiting her & went into the spare bedroom closet looking for the stuffed toy dog & instead found this $60,000. I smuggled it out of her house as I was leaving to say my good byes & drove back home. As soon as I got home I locked the doors & began counting the money & it took me 3 hours to count it totaling $60,000 I recall the money made my heart race & made me feel powerful but also I was a nervous wreck I kept the money for 2 days & no I didn't keep it as much as I wanted to. I didn't want my mother to find it & I didn't go to the lengths & extremes to keep it like Lizabeth Scott's character did in the movie. So I can relate to this movie because I know what $60,000 in cash looks & feels like. How the couple found the money is a bit farfetched & unrealistic & hard to accept & swallow.. But other than that it's a very good movie & one of the best film noirs of all time.

Leofwine_draca TOO LATE FOR TEARS is a sufficiently gripping film noir starring Lizabeth Scott as perhaps the ultimate femme fatale, a woman who comes into possession of a suitcase containing no less than $60,000 worth of dollars and decides to hold on to it by whatever means necessary. Most of the plot consists of Scott's character running rings around the dangerous men in her life; the cast includes a youthful Arthur Kennedy acting alongside Dan Duryea and Don DeFore. Eventually things take a murderous twist, and there's the kind of downbeat ending that the censors demanded. This is a film that favours depth of characterisation over plot, and it's icy and mean-spirited enough to make its own mark.

Tom Dooley Made in 1949 this is one of those films that is a must for all noir fans. Do be warned though as this fell out of copyright some years ago and was widely duplicated – often very badly – but this is the restored version and is an absolute gem.Late one night a couple are driving to a party that is far from inviting when a slow car tosses a bag into their open top car. The bag is choc full f cash. The wife is Jane Palmer (Lizabeth Scott) and she decides that she is going to hang onto the cash – despite what her husband wants. So she decides to convince him to keep it. He is cut from a different cloth and it soon becomes apparent how far she will go to keep it.Now Lizabeth Scott is a show stealer here and that is even though everyone else is great too. She is so convincing as the manipulative and self centred vixen and I just loved it. As I said earlier watch out for poor copies or better still get the restored version. For those of you that love fashion, there are some timeless and elegant gowns on display here too and the men all wear zoot suits so you can't win 'em all. This is a must for all fans of the genre and one that has aged with style.