Coming a couple of years past the peaking of the film noir cycle, Too Late for Tears, apart from last-reel retribution, opts for virtually unadulterated and unopposed evil from murderess and thief Lizabeth Scott. Don DeFore, arriving relatively late in the proceedings, is one of the most unimposing noir heroes ever, and if it weren't for the Production Code, Miss Scott would surely have triumphed. For once Dan Duryea is both villain and victim. An underrated and lesser-known noir from Byron Haskin, who also directed the interesting I Walk Alone. William K. Everson