Sunday, June 25, 2017

Murder by contract (1958) - little known film noir directed by Irving Lerner, starring Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi and Caprice Toriel

Rating 7.3/10
Runtime: 81 min
Language: Englishbr /> Country: USA
Directed by: Irving Lerner
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051959/

Cast

Vince Edwards ... Claude
Phillip Pine ... Marc
Herschel Bernardi ... George
Caprice Toriel ... Billie Williams
Michael Granger ... Mr. Moon
Kathie Browne ... Mary - Secretary and Party Girl
Joseph Mell ... Harry - Hotel Room Waiter

Description: Claude is a young man with a regular job, no history of trouble with the law and no chance of making any real money. He also has the brains and emotional detachment to make the big bucks as a hit man, and that becomes his new job title. A string of successful hits gets him sent to Los Angeles for his latest job. There he is accompanied by two goons: one who is perpetually nervous and the other who quickly worships the young man as a hero. The cold, ruthless hit man finally becomes unglued when he finds out that his latest target is a woman. She's a witness, set to testify against his boss, and guarded day and night by the police. It's her femininity that worries Claude: women are unpredictable, they don't do what you expect. Claude eventually proves that he is the unpredictable one and his own worst enemy.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://fastupload.io/lV1FNOgEObBt40B/file


Video and audio information:

Video : 1.98 GB, 3514 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024x554 (1.85:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 68/51 MB (main/commentary), 118/88 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English (including hearing impaired), Spanish, French, Portuguese, Greek, Italian, Turkish, Serbian) posters and screenshots included


Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English and other is commentary by film critic and writer Farran Smith Nehme. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track and switch to main audio track on Track 1, additional track on Track 2)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks,
Very strange movie.