Blast of Silence

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Pros
  • great nyc locations circa 1960 (all)
  • extremely unsentimental (all)
  • criterion collection (all)
Cons
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Obscure, Gritty 1961 Crime Flick Gets the Criterion Treatment
a cult film connoisseur, forty something, a music lover, a man, a writer

JUN
13
2008
Allen Baron's 1961 Blast of Silence is a lost classic of American Independent Cinema and late-period film noir, which has been lovingly restored and reissued on DVD as part of the Criterion Collection.

Blast of Silence tells the story of Frankie Bono, a hired killer who arrives at New York's Penn Station on a train from Cleveland, to fulfill a contract hit on a mid-level mobster. He is accompanied by an omniscient narrator, an uncredited Lionel Stander, a great character actor who had been blacklisted during the Red Scare. The narration was written under pseudonym by Waldo Salt, another artist who... read full review »
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jmdobies
Austin, TX



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