Murder by Contract

1958
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1h 21min

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Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer - until he finds his next target is a woman.

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Film Noir Crime Drama Thriller

Claude es un asesino a sueldo despiadado y eficiente, hasta que descubre que su próximo objetivo es una mujer.Claude es un asesino a sueldo despiadado y eficiente, hasta que descubre que su próximo objetivo es una mujer.Claude es un asesino a sueldo despiadado y eficiente, hasta que descubre que su próximo objetivo es una mujer.

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7.2/10

4.7 k

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Mary
(as Cathy Browne)

Joseph Mell

Harry

Frances Osborne

Miss Wiley

Steven Ritch

Detective Shooting Tear Gas

Janet Brandt

Woman in Movie Theater

Davis Roberts

Hall of Records Clerk

Don Garrett

James William Mayflower

Joanne Arnold

Miss Wexley
(as Gloria Victor)

Albert Cavens

Theatre Patron
(sin créditos)

Cisco Houston

Gun Salesman
(sin créditos)

William H. O'Brien

Hotel Take-Out Delivery Man
(sin créditos)

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Trivia
Shot in seven days.

Errores
Claude crawls through quite a length of drain pipe and the crawl space beneath Billie's house, but emerges into her living room with no dirt on his clothes or person.

Citas
Claude: The only type killing that's safe is when a stranger kills a stranger. No motive. Nothing to link the victim to the executioner. Now why would a stranger kill a stranger? Because somebody's willing to pay. It's business. Same as any other business. You murder the competition. Instead of price-cutting, throat-cutting. Same thing. There are a lot of people around that would like to see lots of other people die a fast death... only they can't see to it themselves. They got conscience, religion, families. They're afraid of punishment here or hereafter. Me...
[laughs]
Claude: I can't be bothered with any of that nonsense, I look at it like a good business. The risk is high but so is the profit.

Conexiones
Featured in Century of Cinema: A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995)

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8/10

Noir existentialism

Murder by Contract is a unique little film. It operates within its own little hermetic (back- projected) world, and it is no accident that one of its main scenes is set on an abandoned film studio. Vince Edwards plays a disaffected antihero, and, with its brilliant minimalistic guitar score (by Perry Botkin) it could be possible to read this film as Jarmushian WAY avant la lettre! The ending is quite disappointing - the film just kind of peters out, but there are so many beautifully observed details along the way. Not for nothing is the great Lucien Ballard the cinematographer. But who is Irving Lerner and what happened to him? Hershel Bernardi plays such a perfect kind of Second Avenue Theater role as one of the two "boys" who are the hit-man's handlers, and the over-sensitive call-girl scene is hilarious. Highly recommended - see it in a theater if you can! A film like this makes me angry at films like the way - over-hyped Reservoir Dogs. That film is SO overdetermined - the antithesis of a modest work like this one, which only reveals itself to the patient viewer.