Blast of Silence

USA 1961, 77 minutes, B/W
Dir. Allen Baron
Genres: Classics, Suspense/Crime / Film Noir

Aroview: Grumpy, low-fi noir presides over the movements of a tetchy contract killer (dir. Baron) as he prepares to whack a two-bit mobster during Christmas in New York. Urged on by a brooding voiceover narration (in the second-person, no less), this diamond-in-the-rough belies its scruffy first impressions to both surprise and shock.

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4 stars (Very Good) Shot in grey New York. Wonderful location shooting in Harlem etc. Lionel Stander contributes as a great narrator. Everything would suggest it should be depressing but it isn't. ~Tubbs
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5 stars (Exceptional) Beautiful. Love it. Perhaps an anti xmas movie. NYC captured cold ~stve