Blonde Ice

1948

Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 29% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 29% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 1655 1.7K

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Plot summary

A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.

Director

Jack Bernhard Photo
Jack Bernhard

Top cast

Rory Mallinson Photo
Rory Mallinson as Police Sgt. Benson
William H. O'Brien Photo
William H. O'Brien as Victor
Jack Del Rio Photo
Jack Del Rio as Roberts - the Butler
John Holland Photo
John Holland as Carl Hanneman
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683.44 MB
1280*932
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 14 min
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1.24 GB
1484*1080
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 14 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Prof-Hieronymos-Grost 6 / 10

Femme Fatale on overdrive

Society girl Claire Cummings (Leslie Brooks) on her wedding day to multi millionaire Carl Hanneman is caught after the ceremony in the arms of an old flame Les Burns,by her new husband. Hanneman immediately says the marriage is over and leaves Claire to lick her wounds. However she has bigger plans and is not about to let her new wealth walk out the door, so she plans a foolproof plan to murder her husband while retaining her alibi on the other side of the country. All is going according to plan, until Les Burns a man Claire still loves is picked up as murder suspect No1. Claire soon after professing her love to Les, puts another rich man under her spell, a famous lawyer running for congress and when their engagement is announced Les is disgusted at her money grabbing skills and confronts her again, and again she is caught in his arms by her new suitor, this is where Claire loses the plot altogether and her world comes tumbling down along with her aspirations. Blonde Ice despite its C movie status is a good little Noir, Brooks is excellent as the ubiquitous Femme Fatale, the DVD had pretty poor sound though, very wooly which affected my total enjoyment, but still not bad.6/10
Reviewed by Cinebug 7 / 10

Obscure "B" Film Noir About Cold-Blooded Femme Fatal

Coldly beautiful Leslie Brooks is well cast as Claire, who happily goes about marrying rich men so that she can kill them, get their money, and move on to her next victim. It's a bizarre little film noir, which must have seemed even more bizarre in the days when most films wouldn't touch a story about a woman who is so totally ruthless in getting what she wants.Robert Paige, as the man who really loves her but can't overlook her hobby, was in the latter stages of his career when this poverty row noir was made.BLONDE ICE was directed by Jack Bernhard and photographed by George Robinson, the unsung master cinematographer who gave such great atmosphere to the Universal "B" horror films of the '30's and 40's.There are also many fine character actors playing the type of roles they were so well known for------even if their names were not. They showed up so often in the '30's and '40's------always playing the same character-------that we knew when they walked on the screen exactly what their personality was going to be.Edgar G. Ulmer, the famous cult director of such admired "B" masterpieces as DETOUR, THE BLACK CAT and RUTHLESS claims to have written the story, though his name does not appear in the credits.This is one of the most difficult "B" films to see, but is well worth watching if you get the opportunity.
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