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List Price: $29.95 Our Price: $22.49 You Save: $7.46 Features • Black & White • Dolby • DVD-Video • Full Screen • NTSC In Theaters : 1961 DVD Release : 15 April, 2008 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | A cool 'Blast' from the past. |
| Allen Baron spent most of his career directing television dross like [[ASIN:B000HLDFA4 The Dukes of Hazzard]] and [[ASIN:B00008WJEZ Charlie's Angels]]--35 years of it, to be exact. (To be fair to Baron, he also directed two series I liked back in the day, [[ASIN:B000CCBCI0 The Brady Bunch]] and [[ASIN:B0002CX1M0 Night Gallery]].) But in 1961 he made this one really cool noir film, Blast of Silence. Shot in gritty black and white on the streets of Manhattan, this dark, low-budget crime/thriller tells the story (through a poetic interior monologue performed by Lionel Stander) of a professional hit man, not-so-handsome Frankie Bono (Allen Baron), suffering from a severe case of existential malaise. With Christmas approaching, he is hired to whack a mob boss. While plotting the assasination, Bono is recognized by an old friend from the orphanage, whose happily-married domestic existence forces Bono to confront his own solitary life. The 77-minute film has an edgy, ragged, beat quality, with a hip jazz score. The Criterion edition features a newly restored digital transfer, "Requiem for a Killer: The Making of Blast of Silence," on-set Polaroids, and a booklet featuring an essay by film critic Terrence Rafferty and a four-page graphic-novel adaptation of the film by acclaimed artist Sean Phillips (Criminal, Sleeper, Marvel Zombies). I am truly amazed Blast of Silence has not achieved classic cult-film status. Blast of Silence is 77 minutes of time well spent in noir at its best.
G. Merritt |
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