合约谋杀案Murder by Contract (1958) Indicator 1080p BluRay x265 HEVC FLAC-SARTRE

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The director Irving Lerner had extensive experience with documentaries when he made this film noir, in 1958, and it shows. His antihero, Claude (Vince Edwards), is a workingman who, in his struggle to make a down payment on a house, decides to become a “contractor.” Claude comes equipped with a dazzling set of deadly wiles, but he also has a regular guy’s hangups, which get in the way of his big job: the killing of a woman who is about to testify against a high-level mobster. Much of the movie is taken up with the absorbing practicalities of murder scenes of Claude’s self-punishing domestic workouts provide the template for the now familiar cinematic trope of the closeted killer’s do-it-yourself training. But, breaking the tone of the drama, the absurd often comes to the fore, embodied here in the bumbling antics and colorful banter of Claude’s two handlers (Herschel Bernardi and Phillip Pine), who seem refracted from Hemingway’s story “The Killers.” Lerner directs with a wary neutrality that leaves judgment aside he lets the killer speak his piece, resulting in a few politicized surprises.

Quote:TITLE...........: Murder by Contract (1958)
STARS...........: Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi
DIRECTOR........: Irving Lerner
WRITERS.........: Ben Simcoe, Ben Maddow
GENRE...........: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
TOMATOMETER.....: 100/81
IMDB SCORE......: 7.3
IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051959
RUNTIME.........: 1h 21mn
SIZE............: 5.83 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 10000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1920x1040
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.85:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO1..........: English FLAC 1.0
AUDIO2..........: Commentary by writer and film critic Farran Smith Nehme
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Indicator Blu-ray Remux / DVD
ENCODE DATE.....: 2023-11-24

Extras

• Martin Scorsese on Murder by Contract
• Theatrical Trailer






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