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Killer’s Kiss key facts

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Writer: Stanley Kubrick (story)

Stars: Frank Silvera, Irene Kane, Jamie Smith

Length: 67 min

Genre: Crime-Drama -Film-Noir

Release date:1 October 1955 (USA)

Killer’s Kiss synopsis

Prize-fighter Davy Gordon intervenes when private dancer Gloria Price is being attacked by her employer and lover Vincent Raphello. This brings the two together and they get involved with each other, which displeases Raphello. He sends men out to kill Davy, but they instead kill his friend. Gloria is soon kidnapped by Raphello and his men, and it is up to Davy to save her.

Director-Stanley Kubrick

Born:(1928-07-26)July 26, 1928The Bronx, New York City, United States

Died: March 7, 1999(1999-03-07) (aged 70)

He was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, and editor who did much of his work in the United Kingdom.

He directed 16 films including A clockwork orange, The shinning and 2001: a Space Odyssey

Like Fear and Desire, Killer’s Kiss was privately funded by Kubrick's family and friends, and production was again made with "a virtual one-man crew", with Kubrick co-writing the script with Sackler.

Killer’s Kiss Original Movie posters

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I chose this as my final piece asI feel it still captures the movieand appeals to a modernaudience. I thought about thecolour a lot and the connotationof the colour red. I kept thepicture in black and white tomake it dramatic and to keep inwith the film noir roots. I alsothought about the placement ofthe image to which bit woulddraw the most attention. Iwanted the type face to be likehandwriting to give a personalfactor and to connote a ‘lovenote’ feel. The picture is a moremodern piece with modernthemes more acceptable in thisday and age opposed to the1950’s. Adding to this it wouldhave been rare to see aphotograph as a movie poster.