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Kiss Of Death

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Price:	£13.93	Buy Now Rent
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Format:	DVD

Starring:	Victor Mature \| Richard Widmark

Director:	Henry Hathaway

Screen:	Aspect Ratio 1.33:1

Languages:	English

No. of Disks:	1

Region:	Region 2

Release Date:	15 October 2007

Availability:	Usually dispatched within a week

The giggling psycho killer, the old lady in the wheelchair pushed down the stairs- this is the film wherein Richard Wildmark became a star, Victor Mature became and actor, sadism came to the big screen and Hollywood neorealism got tangled in dreamscape of noir.

Kiss of Death is a semi-autobiography thriller which began life not as pulp fiction but as a version of facts, derived from the case files of Eleazar Lipsky, an inspiring novelist and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney. Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer delivered the script.

Richard Widmark, then a radio actor, made his film debut, stealing every frame as the terrifying, grinning snickering killer Tommy Udo. Udo, with his animal ferocity and vicious joie de vivre, is clearly a spiritual nephew of Scarface's Tiny Camonte, but Widmark himself should be credited with many of the inspired details of his performance.

Special Features

Interview with Richard Widmark.
Original theatrical trailer, presented by famed commentator Walter Winchell.
Fully Illustrated booklet with an essay by Lee Server and an interview with Henr