Black Angel is a 1946 American film noir starring Dan Duryea, June Vincent and Peter Lorre.

Seen fleeing the scene, the married Bennett is soon picked up by Captain Flood of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Now, while Kirk's days on Death Row tick away toward the gas chamber, she mounts her own vigorous but clumsy investigation of his claims of innocence.

They get the job, and become convinced Marko is hiding a dark secret when Marty recognizes an envelope from Mavis' personal stationery in his office.

Their partnership blossoms into a songwriting collaboration; that, along with the nightclub act lead to a taste of glamor and celebrity.

In spite of having "sacrificed her virtue" in getting close enough to Mr. Marko to rifle his safe, she tells Marty that Kirk had always been the only man for her, and would remain so.

In his delirium, Marty realizes that it was actually he who had strangled Mavis and taken the brooch, then buried the traumatic memory in a drunken stupor.

Paying the usual quarter, he had bribed his building's janitor to let him out of his room that night, and stumbled up the stairs to Mavis' apartment when the doorman was distracted.

After several failed efforts he leaves a message for Flood to call him at Catherine's home, but is passed out drunk when the phone rings.

[citation needed] According to Francis M. Nevins (quoted in Thomas Renzi's, Cornell Woolrich from Pulp Noir to Film Noir) "Neill and cinematographer Paul Ivano invest every shot with a visual style which translates Woolrich as any novel needs to be translated: with total fidelity to its essence and little if any to its literal text.

"[3] According to Hollywood observer John Howard Reid in Movie Mystery & Suspense, credit is also due to Dan Duryea for his interpretation of the part of Marty Blair, who "remains the most sympathetic character in the film and far worthier of the heroine than her weak and disloyal husband".