1950 · noir · gangster · corruption
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Directed by Gordon Douglas1h 43m1950
Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inmate’s sister, gets back quickly into the crime business, faces corrupt local cops who run the city’s underworld and meets a powerful tycoon’s whimsical daughter.
Our read: Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded noir · gangster · corruption entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme noir / gangster, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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