{"id":31964,"date":"2023-02-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31964"},"modified":"2023-02-18T14:30:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T19:30:03","slug":"kiss-the-blood-off-my-hands-1948-starring-burt-lancaster-joan-fontaine-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31964","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Kiss the Blood Off My Hands&#8221; (1948) starring Burt Lancaster &#038; Joan Fontaine \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z022423zview_kissbloodofmyhands.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"760\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Kiss the Blood Off My Hands <\/strong><\/em>(1948)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Norman Foster<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Writer:\u00a0 <strong>Leonardo Bercovici <\/strong>(screenplay),<strong>Walter Bernstein, Ben Maddow<\/strong> (adaptation), <strong>Hugh Gray <\/strong>(dialogue), <strong>Philip MacDonald <\/strong>(uncredited) based on the novel <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YIky2g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kiss the Blood Off My Hands<\/a> by Gerald Butler<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, Robert Newton, Jay Novello<\/strong> and <strong>Reginald Sheffield<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>&#8220;A Hunted Man! A Love-Haunted Woman! Caught! With Every Kiss More Reckless, More Dangerous Than the Last&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bill Saunders (Lancaster) is a former POW suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. He&#8217;s on the run for accidentally killing a man.\u00a0 In order to escape the police, Bill enters a window. Jane Wharton (Fontaine) wakes to find a stranger in her room.\u00a0 Jane believes Bill that the man&#8217;s death was an accident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bill and Jane slowly develop a relationship.\u00a0 All is going well until, Harry Carter (Newton) a local hood, recognizes Bill from the fight that killed a man.\u00a0 Carter says he will go to the police unless Bill helps him with a planned robbery.\u00a0 Bill wants no part of the deal, but knows if he goes to jail he&#8217;ll lose Jane.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Kiss the Blood Off My Hands<\/em> was ahead of it&#8217;s time in the portrayal of PTSD.\u00a0 Yet, the love affair and ending of the film is right out of the 40s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>Kiss the Blood Off My Hands <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z022423zview_kissbloodofmyhands2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"277\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948) Director:\u00a0 Norman Foster Writer:\u00a0 Leonardo Bercovici (screenplay),Walter Bernstein, Ben Maddow (adaptation), Hugh Gray<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31965,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31964\/revisions\/31965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}