Killer's Kiss (1955)
Country: US
Technical: bw 64m
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Frank Silvera, Irene Kane, Jamie Smith
Synopsis:
A prizefighter gets mixed up with the Mob over a woman.
Review:
Excellent lighting and cinematography from Kubrick in his second feature, but a somewhat perfunctory plot and under-recorded principal role, characterise this flashback structured noir. The climax in and around deserted warehouses on the Lower East Side, including a macabre mannequin spare part depot, lend a fitting intensity to the final showdown, but it is the impeccable close-up work and clinical approach to mirrors and stairwells that anticipate glories to come, and in that climactic bout one cannot help thinking of the Thracian and retiarius fighting it out in Spartacus. The girl is so reminiscent of Grace Kelly with a Richard Widmark smirk, one wonders Hitchcock did not sign her up instantly, and she certainly packs a killer kiss, even with the man she supposedly reviles; I wonder, maybe the boxer is a fallguy after all.
Country: US
Technical: bw 64m
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Frank Silvera, Irene Kane, Jamie Smith
Synopsis:
A prizefighter gets mixed up with the Mob over a woman.
Review:
Excellent lighting and cinematography from Kubrick in his second feature, but a somewhat perfunctory plot and under-recorded principal role, characterise this flashback structured noir. The climax in and around deserted warehouses on the Lower East Side, including a macabre mannequin spare part depot, lend a fitting intensity to the final showdown, but it is the impeccable close-up work and clinical approach to mirrors and stairwells that anticipate glories to come, and in that climactic bout one cannot help thinking of the Thracian and retiarius fighting it out in Spartacus. The girl is so reminiscent of Grace Kelly with a Richard Widmark smirk, one wonders Hitchcock did not sign her up instantly, and she certainly packs a killer kiss, even with the man she supposedly reviles; I wonder, maybe the boxer is a fallguy after all.
Country: US
Technical: bw 64m
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Frank Silvera, Irene Kane, Jamie Smith
Synopsis:
A prizefighter gets mixed up with the Mob over a woman.
Review:
Excellent lighting and cinematography from Kubrick in his second feature, but a somewhat perfunctory plot and under-recorded principal role, characterise this flashback structured noir. The climax in and around deserted warehouses on the Lower East Side, including a macabre mannequin spare part depot, lend a fitting intensity to the final showdown, but it is the impeccable close-up work and clinical approach to mirrors and stairwells that anticipate glories to come, and in that climactic bout one cannot help thinking of the Thracian and retiarius fighting it out in Spartacus. The girl is so reminiscent of Grace Kelly with a Richard Widmark smirk, one wonders Hitchcock did not sign her up instantly, and she certainly packs a killer kiss, even with the man she supposedly reviles; I wonder, maybe the boxer is a fallguy after all.