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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Film-Noir /
Thriller /
Music
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Director:
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Stanley Kubrick
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Actors:
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Felice Orlandi,
Frank Silvera,
Jamie Smith,
Irene Kane,
Jerry Jarrett,
Mike Dana,
Barbara Brand,
Skippy Adelman,
David Vaughan
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Duration:
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67 min.
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Rating:
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(6.7/10)70
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Plot Summary:
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Stanley Kubrick's backer call attention to vapour, Killer's Buss was made on a budget of $40,000, all raised by Kubrick's relatives. The black-and-off-white scenario was shot principally at round-the-clock in a variety of worn out Manhattan locations. The plot, told in an extended flashback, covers two days in the life of boxer Davy Gordon (Jamie Smith) -- he meets nightclub dancer Gloria Cost (Irene Kane); the two fall in love, and referee to manage their futures somewhere other than Brand-new York Burg. But Gloria is lusted after by her ex-patron, Vince Rapallo (Outspoken Silvera), who not... only won't receipts no for an answer but has no end of losing her to a two-fragment boxer. His machinations persuade to murder, a police manhunt, and revenge in the most excellently film noir shape -- the very first, in fact, as Kubrick's use of trustworthy New York settings (and vastly dark and sleazy Untrodden York settings at that) gives the action here a upsetting verisimilitude, as though we're watching a documentary, or the unfolding of manifest events. The power escalates as Davy and Rapallo find themselves accepted one-on-one, to the death if need be, with a climax in a storeroom filled with branch count on mannequins and their several component parts. Director-freelancer-photographer-editor-in-chief Kubrick wasn't pleased with the studio-imposed ending added nearby its distributor (Communal Artists), but that compromise was a batch more rational and fulfilling than the filmmaker's intended denouement. Irene Kane, who played the female manage, later on achieved achievement as TV commentator and journalist Chris Chase; also appearing in the blur is Kubrick's then-wife Ruth Sobotka. And Frank Silvera, who plays the villain, was supply the most prominent black actors working in theater and films during the 1950s, and at the end of the day achieved stardom on TV a dozen years later with his r“le on the NBC series The Tainted Chapparal.~ Bruce Eder, All Cinema Guide
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Killer's Kiss
With films such as Dr Strangelove, 2001 and A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick became one of the world's most noted directors and lived a reclusive, intensely confidential existence in a stately home near St Albans in Hertfordshire. But Kubrick began with low-budget thrillers and this boxing-gangland story (his second smokescreen) has that stretch of fatalism and cynicism that marks his later beget. There is a terrific ascend when hero and villain have a bovver surrounded during mannequins, and an without exception spurious ballet arrangement featuring Kubrick's second wife Ruth Sobotka. It's a fascinating work, uniform though it's weakly acted and outline at the edges.
Killer's Kiss
Written, edited, like a flash, produced and directed by Kubrick for a mere $75,000, his second feature is a moody but rather...
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