The films reviewed here represent those I have liked or loved over the years. It is not a list of my favourite films but all the films reviewed here are worth seeing and worth seeking out. I know many of you won't agree with me on a lot of these but hopefully you will grant me, and the films that appear here, our place in the sun. Thanks for reading.
Monday, 3 June 2019
MURDER BY CONTRACT
A B-movie and something of a small classic comparable to Melville's "Le
Samourai" which it may have influenced. Vince Edwards in his pre-Ben
Casey days is the young man who actually wants to be a contract killer
and the movie is about his somewhat clinical initiation into the job.
Superbly written by Ben Simcoe, brilliantly photographed in black and
white by Lucien Ballard and with a terrific yet simple score by Perry
Botkin this movie comes close to perfection. It was directed by Irving
Lerner who up to then hadn't really done anything of note, (perhaps he
was just waiting for the right material). Edwards is superb as the
almost overly confident killer who comes undone when he has to kill a
woman. It's a very simple picture, in which almost all the killings are
kept off-screen concentrating instead on the killer's psychology and how
he goes about his work. Never a commercial success it has now build up a
considerable cult following.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
JUROR #2
If "Juror #2" turns out to be the last film Clint Eastwood makes, (quite possible since the man is 94 now), at least he will have...
-
Having made two films on the essence of cinema or at least on the filmmaker's craft, (her own), Joanna Hogg has now turned her attentio...
-
You know that a Lars von Trier serial killer movie is unlikely to be like anyone else's serial killer movie; that it is most likely t...
No comments:
Post a Comment