Angel Face is a 1953 American film noir directed by Otto Preminger, starring Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons, and featuring Leon Ames and Barbara O'Neil.

Previews were held in early December 1952, with notices appearing throughout the month in Box Office, The Film Daily, The Hollywood Reporter, Motion Picture Herald and Variety.

Early in the film, there is a scene where the script called for Robert Mitchum to slap a hysterical Jean Simmons across the face.

In his review for The New York Times, critic Howard Thompson described Angel Face as a frustrating mix of real talent, occasional insight, and tedious psychological nonsense.

He stated that a promising and tightly woven story idea had been lost in a pretentious Freudian haze, which permeated the beautifully presented film and led to disastrous outcomes.

The film's baffling character motivations, deliberately perplexing events, and wandering pace were peculiar and undermined its overall quality.

[8] Dave Kehr from the Chicago Reader wrote in 1985: "This intense Freudian melodrama by Otto Preminger (1953) is one of the forgotten masterworks of film noir...

"[9] Film noir historian Alain Silver wrote: "In Otto Preminger’s work sexuality may be either therapeutic or destructive.

Rather his mise-en-scène, which repeatedly frames the figures in obliquely angled medium shots against the depth of field created by the expensive furnishings of the Tremayne mansion, and Mitchum’s subdued portrayal engender an atmosphere of fatality.