Murder by Contract

Name: Murder by Contract
Director: Irving Lerner
Released: 1958-01-01

1958 film by Irving Lerner

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Released: 1958
Director: Irving Lerner
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2.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=109884.htmlRetrieved 2016-05-18
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Cast: Vince Edwards
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1.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=109884.htmlRetrieved 2016-05-18
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, Phillip Pine
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1.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=109884.htmlRetrieved 2016-05-18
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, Herschel Bernardi
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1.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=109884.htmlRetrieved 2016-05-18
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, Janet Brandt
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Genre: film noir
, crime film
, drama film
Country of origin: United States
Original language: English
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Composer: Perry Botkin, Sr.

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Murder by Contract is a 1958 American film noir crime film directed by Irving Lerner. Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Ben Maddow did uncredited work on the film. Centering on an existentialist hit man assigned to kill a woman, the film is often praised for its spare style and peculiar sense of cool.

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Director of photography: Lucien Ballard
Title: Murder by Contract
Color: black-and-white

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