Blast of silence, Universal International ; screenplay by Allen Baron ; narration written by Mel Davenport ; an Alfred Crown-Dan Enright production ; produced by Merrill Brody ; directed by Allen Baron
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Blast of silence, Universal International ; screenplay by Allen Baron ; narration written by Mel Davenport ; an Alfred Crown-Dan Enright production ; produced by Merrill Brody ; directed by Allen Baron
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
Blast of silence
Medium
videorecording
Oclc number
191078253
Responsibility statement
Universal International ; screenplay by Allen Baron ; narration written by Mel Davenport ; an Alfred Crown-Dan Enright production ; produced by Merrill Brody ; directed by Allen Baron
Runtime
77
Series statement
The Criterion collection, 428
Summary
Frankie Bono is an orphan who has learned to make a profitable living as a contract killer. Traveling from Cleveland to New York during the Christmas season, he is charged with taking out mid-level Harlem numbers and drug kingpin Troiano. Stalking his prey as he goes about his daily routine, Bono is distracted by an unexpected encounter with a childhood friend whose sister sees him as a lonely man, not the barely human shell he has become. Acutely aware of his own mortality, Bono sees everything as a facade, the pretty Christmas lights mere glitzy decorations covering the festering rot of existence, and his own personal hell
Table Of Contents
"Remembering" -- "At noon you make contact" -- "Target's name is Troiano" -- "He turns your stomach" -- Time to kill -- "Alone at dinner" -- "You hate parties" -- December 25 -- December 26 -- Silencing a rat -- "Hoodlum strangled!" -- Another bad moment -- Last day -- Hit -- "God moves in mysterious ways" -- Color bars
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
Contributor
- Kaner, Ruth
- Tucker, Larry, 1934-2001
- Saroyan, Don, 1928-1990
- Bubbico, Joe
- Rogers, Gil, 1934-2021
- Crown, Alfred W., 1910-1984
- Salt, Waldo
- Memenas, Milda
- Creasap, Charles
- Kupferman, Meyer, 1926-2003
- McCarthy, Molly, (Actress)
- Lawson, Peggy
- Meehan, Danny
- Brody, Merrill, 1927-1996
- Clune, Peter H.
- Universal-International (Firm)
- Mann, Howard, 1923-2008
- Sheldon, Dean
- Baron, Allen
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Enright, Dan
- Da Prado, Bill
- Douglas, Jerry, 1932-
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- Tucker, Larry, 1934-2001
- Saroyan, Don, 1928-1990
- Bubbico, Joe
- Rogers, Gil, 1934-2021
- Crown, Alfred W., 1910-1984
- Salt, Waldo
- Memenas, Milda
- Creasap, Charles
- Kupferman, Meyer, 1926-2003
- McCarthy, Molly, (Actress)
- Lawson, Peggy
- Meehan, Danny
- Brody, Merrill, 1927-1996
- Clune, Peter H.
- Universal-International (Firm)
- Mann, Howard, 1923-2008
- Sheldon, Dean
- Baron, Allen
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- Enright, Dan
- Da Prado, Bill
- Douglas, Jerry, 1932-
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