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The film is efficient enough, but it's a measure of Hathaway's limitations that it never once fulfills the paranoid delirium built into its subject.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Kiss of Death
From her lips there is no escape!
1947 · 1h 39m · Approved
Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Henry Hathaway
Overview
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
Director and cast
- Henry Hathaway Director
- Victor Mature as Nick Bianco
- Brian Donlevy as Asst. Dist. Atty. Louis D'Angelo
- Coleen Gray as Nettie
- Richard Widmark as Tommy Udo
- Taylor Holmes as Earl Howser, Attorney
- Karl Malden as Sgt. William Cullen
- Howard Smith as Warden
- Anthony Ross as Big Eddie Williams
- Millard Mitchell as Detective (uncredited) =
- Robert Adler Cast
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