| | Kiss Of Death DVD
| Category | Dramas DVDs, Thriller Movies, Suspense Videos, Crime, Killers, Prison | | Starring | Richard Widmark, Victor Mature, Karl Malden, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Taylor Holmes, Anthony Ross, Howard Smith | | Director | Henry Hathaway | | Cinematographer | Norbert F. Brodine | | Composer | David Buttolph | | Editor | J. Watson Webb | | Producer | Fred Kohlmar | | Production Designer | Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller | | Screenwriter | Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer |
A crook gets caught and refuses to reveal his accomplices until he learns his family is in danger. Richard Widmark stars. 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. A two bit thief (Mature) puts his family in untold danger when the district attorney convinces him to squeal on a fellow inmate at Sing Sing: the homicidal psychopath will stop at nothing to gain revenge. Academy Award Nominations: Best Supporting Actor--Richard Widmark, Best Original Story. Richard Widmark's screen debut.
Film opens with the notice "All scenes in this motion picture, both exterior and interior, were photographed in the State of New York on the actual locale associated with the story." Kiss Of Death Quotes/Excerpts: "Nick Bianco hadn't worked for a year. He had a record, a prison record. They say it shouldn't count against you. But when Nick tried to get a job, the same thing happened... So this is how Nick went Christmas shopping for his kids." (Opening narration, as Nick prepares to pull an armed robbery)
"I wouldn't give you the skin off a grape." (Tommy Udo to Assistant District Attorney D'Angelo)
"Your side of the fence is almost as dirty as mine." (Convict Nick Bianco, in the process of making a deal with Assistant District Attorney D'Angelo).
"I'm askin' you: where's that squealin' son of yours?" (Tommy Udo to Rizzo's wheelchair-bound mother, just before he pushes her down the stairs) Kiss Of Death Reviews: "...One of the best photographed examples of postwar 20th Century-Fox film noir..."
-- Mike Clark, USA Today "Udo pushing a wheelchair-bound old lady down the stairs -- one of the most iconic moments in all noir -- is still chilling." -- Grade: B+
-- Edward Karam, Entertainment Weekly 5 stars out of 5 -- "Richard Widmark stole movie....Widmark plays evil like be-bop, becoming an eternal dark icon..."-- Allan Jones, Uncut "This is quintessential film noir, hardboiled, vicious but with pathos and lyricism too."-- Geoffrey Macnab, Sight and Sound Kiss Of Death | List Price | $14.98 (You save $4.49) | | Studio | 20th Century Fox | | Orig Year | 1947 | | All Time Sales Rank |  6084  | | CD Universe Part number | 6970801 | | Catalog number | 2228354 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Dec 06, 2005 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 98 Minutes | | Additional Info | Full Frame; Dubbed; Subtitled | | Movie Details | B&W; Digitally Processed; Full Frame; Dubbed; Subtitled |
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