If the production code didn't mandate the villain's defeat by the film's end, Udo would have walked away triumphant, tossing a butt at a flat-on-his-face Bianco.
Kiss of Death (1947)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:12
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Two-time loser Nick Bianco is caught during an armed robbery and pressured by the Assistant District Attorney to squeal on his cohorts. Nick refuses, but after his wife commits suicide and his... Two-time loser Nick Bianco is caught during an armed robbery and pressured by the Assistant District Attorney to squeal on his cohorts. Nick refuses, but after his wife commits suicide and his daughters are put in an orphanage, he relents and goes to work for the prosecutor. He gets paroled and straightens out his life, but when the D.A. needs him to roll over on Tommy Udo, Nick finds he has to deal with the psychopathic killer himself. [More]
Starring: Victor Mature, Richard Widmark, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray
Starring: Victor Mature, Richard Widmark, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Karl Malden, Taylor Holmes, Howard Smith, Anthony Ross
Director: Henry Hathaway
Director: Henry Hathaway
Screenwriter: Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer
Producer: Fred Kohlmar
Composer: David Buttolph
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Reviews for Kiss of Death
The film is efficient enough, but it's a measure of Hathaway's limitations that it never once fulfills the paranoid delirium built into its subject.
What really sets this noir apart...is a combination of Hathaway's deliberate craftsmanship and the small crackerjack ensemble led by Mature and Widmark
A jumbled piece of cinematic crime fiction that's visually elegant but regularly confused about its own point of view.
Hathaway's film is one of the best-known noirs of the decade, mostly due to Richard Widmark's stunning debut in an Oscar-nominated role of a giggling psycho who pushes old crippled ladies down the stairs.
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