Murder by Contract

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Time Out says

A terrific, no-nonsense B movie which comes on like something by Jean-Pierre Melville: cool, calm and dispassionate. Edwards is Claude, a technician who goes into crime as a career move, to 'improve himself'. A series of hits later, he looks every inch the professional assassin, confident enough to take his time, competent enough not to fear detection. It isn't entirely his fault if something goes wrong on the big contract... Lerner and his superb cameraman, Lucien Ballard, make the most of a shoestring budget to produce a taut, spare, amoral film; it doesn't look restricted, it looks restrained. Well ahead of its time, too.

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Release details

UK release:

1958

Duration:

80 mins

Cast and crew

Director:

Irving Lerner

Cast:

Cathy Browne, Michael Granger, Caprice Toriel, Herschel Bernardi, Phillip Pine, Vince Edwards, Frances Osborne

Music:

Perry Botkin

Art Director:

Jack Poplin

Editor:

Carlo Lodato

Cinematography:

Lucien Ballard

Screenwriter:

Ben Simcoe

Producer:

Leon Chooluck

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  • Strange question: Who wrote and arranged the guitar music in the background? It sounds an awful lot like similar stuff that used to be heard during scene-changes in episodes of "The Beverly Hillbillies..."

    TuxGuys Wed Nov 14 2007
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