Jean Simmons is absolutely perfect for her role as a scheming, underlyingly evil, yet beautiful and rich young woman. Robert Mitchum as sometimes happens with his performances sounds the wrong note and plays it a bit too cool and clever for the part. However, they do work well together but on the whole the film doesn't quite work because the suspense is negated by the fact that you know where the story is heading even if not quite sure how. There are a least a couple of shocks and a couple of twists so it is worth keeping with the film and to observe Simmons in hardly her best film but still one in which she is always watchable.
Review of Angel Face
