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Bookmark this pageWinter Kills (1979)
Director: William Richert
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From Time Out Film Guide
An excellent conspiracy thriller of unusual blackness and wit, from a novel by Richard Condon, author of The Manchurian Candidate and Prizzi's Honour. A dazzling cast is assembled for its helter-skelter narrative about the brother (Bridges) of a murdered US President, searching for the real assassin and stumbling across the bloodstained pieces of a jigsaw that refuses to be completed. For once the tag of 'any similarity' hardly stands up, since the family patriarch - richly played by Huston, even in red underwear - owns most of America, and the name begins with 'K'. Richert's direction negotiates the plot's many pleasurably sharp bends with such skill that one emerges a little dazed, more than a little amused, and nagged by a worrying sense that it could just all be true.Author: DT
Cast & crew
Director: William Richert
Producer: Fred Caruso
Cast: Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Sterling Hayden, Eli Wallach, Dorothy Malone, Ralph Meeker, Belinda Bauer, Richard Boone, Elizabeth Taylor, Brad Dexter, Toshiro Mifune full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 96 mins
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