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"Jimmy Kilmartin is an ex-convict making a new life, but he cannot refuse the pleas of his cousin, Ronnie, to get him out of trouble with crime boss, Little Junior, by driving a truck with stolen cars. In a shootout, Jimmy saves the life of one policeman, Calvin, but is imprisoned because he refuses to turn in the others. When Jimmy is up for parole, he deals with assistant district attorney to put away Little Junior by taping his conversations."
"Feature film from the USA. Film noir. A criminal becomes a police informer when his family is threatened, and the affected gang is out for revenge."
"Nick Bianco is a small-time crook who gets caught during a jewel heist. Despite some urging, he refuses to rat out the team, assuming they would take care of his family. When his wife commits suicide, he rats out his partners and one seeks revenge."
"Nick Bianco is a small-time crook who gets caught during a jewel heist. Despite some urging, he refuses to rat out the team, assuming they would take care of his family. When his wife commits suicide, he rats out his partners and one seeks revenge."@en
"Een kleine crimineel moet om vrij te komen uit de gevangenis infiltreren in de bende van een gevaarlijke psychopaat."
"A small-time criminal informs on one of his partners who seeks revenge when he gets out of prison."@en
"This gripping crime melodrama set a new standard for realism in Hollywood. Victor Mature is Nick Bianco, a two-bit crook who is trying to go straight. He has a wife and two girls to feed, but nobody hires ex-cons. Nick cooperates with the D.A. (Brian Donlevy) to save his family. The D.A. wants Nick to squeal on up-and-coming hood Tommy Udo (Richard Widmark), but that could be very unhealthy -- for Nick and his two young daughters."
"This gripping crime melodrama set a new standard for realism in Hollywood. Victor Mature is Nick Bianco, a two-bit crook who is trying to go straight. He has a wife and two girls to feed, but nobody hires ex-cons. Nick cooperates with the D.A. (Brian Donlevy) to save his family. The D.A. wants Nick to squeal on up-and-coming hood Tommy Udo (Richard Widmark), but that could be very unhealthy -- for Nick and his two young daughters."@en
"A thief informs on his cohorts, and a psychopathic killer goes after him for revenge."@en
"A gritty thriller about Jimmy Kilmartin, an ex-convict out on parole, who is reluctantly lured back into the underworld for one last heist, reentering a world he is determined to escape once and for all."@en
""Kiss of death is a semi-documentary thriller which began life not as pulp fiction but as a version of the facts, derived from the case files of Eleazar Lipsky, an aspiring novelist and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney." -- Container."
"A gritty thriller about Jimmy Kilmartin, an ex-convict out on parole, who is reluctantly lured back into the underworld for one last heist. Caught by a police detective, Jimmy is offered a deal: his freedom in return for turning informer on the ferociously wired gangster, Little Junior. Now, caught between the ruthless hoods he used to associate with and a group of ambitious government agents, Jimmy reenters a world he is determined to escape once and for all."
""On Christmas Eve, down-on-his-luck Nick Bianco, an ex-convict, and his three cohorts rob a jewelry store located on the top floor of a New York skyscraper. Before they can exit the building, however, the proprietor sets off his alarm, and Nick is apprehended by the police. Later, Assistant District Attorney Louis D'Angelo tries to persuade Nick, who has two young daughters and a wife, to name his accomplices in exchange for a light sentence. Sure that his lawyer, Earl Howser, and cohorts will look after his family while he is incarcerated, Nick refuses and is given a twenty-year sentence. Three years later, at Sing Sing Prison, Nick learns that his wife has committed suicide, and his daughters have been sent to an orphanage. When Nick then is visited by Nettie Cavallo, a young woman who used to babysit his girls, and learns that his wife had been attacked by Pete Rizzo, one of his accomplices, he decides to tell all to D'Angelo. Because so much time has elapsed, however, D'Angelo cannot use Nick's information to reduce his sentence, but makes a deal that if Nick helps the police on another case, he will be allowed to see his children. To that end, D'Angelo questions Nick about one of his previous, unsolved robberies, which he pulled off with Rizzo, and has Nick inform Howser that Rizzo 'squealed' on him. Howser, who also acts as a fence for his clients, hires Tommy Udo, a sadistic killer, to murder Rizzo, but when Udo shows up at Rizzo's tenement, only Ma Rizzo is present. Annoyed, Udo pushes the wheelchair-bound woman down a flight of stairs, killing her. Soon after, Nick is freed on parole at D'Angelo's behest, and immediately pledges his love to Nettie. To stay paroled, Nick then continues his work with D'Angelo, conniving to run into Udo, whom he knows from Sing Sing, at a boxing match. The unsuspecting Udo takes Nick to various clubs, including one at which narcotics are being smoked, and Udo reveals enough information to Nick about a murder he committed to enable the police to arrest him. When Udo later comes up for trial, Nick, who is now married to Nettie and living in the suburbs under her last name, is reluctant to testify against him, but realizes he must in order to maintain his parole. Despite Nick's testimony and other evidence, Udo is acquitted. Sure that the killer will be after him, and that the police will not be able to protect him and his family, Nick sends Nettie and the children to the country. Nick then searches for Udo at his favorite haunts and finally finds him at Luigi's restaurant. Before confronting Udo, Nick telephones a concerned D'Angelo and instructs him to go to a police station near the restaurant and await his call. Nick tries to reason with Udo, but when the psychopath threatens to harm Nick's family, Nick warns him that if he does, he will go to D'Angelo with information about other crimes he knows Udo committed. Although Udo is aware that, as a 'three-time loser, ' he will spend the rest of his life behind bars if he is found guilty of any crime, he leaves the restaurant and prepares to have Nick gunned down from the back seat of his car. Deducing Udo's plan, Nick calls D'Angelo to tell him that a confrontation is about to occur. Nick then walks to Udo's car and dares him to shoot, which Udo does, repeatedly. Before Udo can escape, however, the police capture him. Though badly wounded, Nick survives, and he and Nettie look forward to a happy, peaceful life together"--AFI catalog, 1941-1950."@en
"David Caruso is Jimmy Kilmartin, an ex-con out on parole who is reluctantly lured back into the underworld for one last heist. Caught by a police detective (Samuel L. Jackson), Jimmy is offered a deal: his freedom in return for turning former on the ferociously wired gangster, Little Junior (Nicolas Cage). Now, caught between the ruthless hoods he used to associate with and a group of ambitious government agents, Jimmy reenters a world he is determined to escape once and for all."@en
"Jimmy Kilmartin is an ex-convict making a new life with his wife, Bev, and daughter, but he cannot refuse the pleas of his cousin, Ronnie, to get him of trouble with crime boss, Little Junior, by driving a truck with stolen cars. In a shootout, Jimmy saves the life of one policeman, Calvin, but is imprisoned because he refuses to turn in the others. When Jimmy is up for parole, he deals with assistant district attorney, Frank Zioli, to put away Little Junior by taping his conversations. Zioli releases Little Junior because of his ambitions to become a judge. With Calvin's help, Jimmy learns about this and threatens to tell the press. Zioli concedes and Jimmy is free."
"A gritty thriller about Jimmy Kilmartin, an ex-convict out on parole, who is reluctantly lured back into the underworld for one last heist. Caught by a police detective, Jimmy is offered a deal: his freedom in return for information."
"A gritty thriller about Jimmy Kilmartin, an ex-convict out on parole, who is reluctantly lured back into the underworld for one last heist. Caught by a police detective, Jimmy is offered a deal: his freedom in return for information."@en
""Sans le sou, Nick Bianco décide de cambrioler une bijouterie pour offrir un Noël décent à sa famille. Arrêté par la police, il se voir proposer par l'assistant du District Attorney Louie D'Angelo une réduction de peine s'il dénonce ses acolytes. Nick refuse, pensant que ses amis aideront sa famille à survivre. Apprenant trois ans plus tard que sa femme s'est suicidée et que ses deux filles ont été placées dans un orphelinat, il se met à table, et recouvre sa liberté. Alors qu'il tente de reconstruire sa vie loin du milieu du crime, Nick apprend que le psychotique Tommy Udo, qu'il a pourtant dénoncé, est en liberté, sur ses traces."--[allociné.fr]."
"A small-time criminal reluctantly becomes a police informant entangling him in a web of underworld retribution, threatened and actual. There is an uneasy alliance here between documentary-like use of New York locations and the melodramatic storyline."@en
"Remake of 1947 film."@en
"Der kleine Gangster Jimmy Kilmartin (David Caruso) wird bei einem Raubüberfall erwischt und zu zwanzig Jahren Haft verurteilt. Obwohl er von einem bürgerlichen Leben mit Frau und Kind träumt, lehnt er das Angebot des Staatsanwaltes ab, gegen Strafminderung den wahren Drahtzieher, Little Junior (Nicolas Cage), ans Messer zu liefern. Doch das ändert sich, als Jimmy erfährt, dass Little Junior seine Frau in den Tod getrieben hat. Er lässt sich in Little Juniors Organisation einschleusen. Ein mörderisches Spiel beginnt, das gnadenlos seine Opfer fordert... Barbet Schroeders zynischer Thriller ist ein zeitgemässes Remake des gleichnamigen Henry Hathaway Films von 1947, der bis in die Nebenrollen top-besetzt ist."
"Based in part on a true story, Kiss of Death is given a veneer of reality by being filmed on location in New York, per the insistence of director Henry Hathaway..Victor Mature plays Nick Bianco, a cheap crook who commits a Christmastime jewelry store heist with his gang, and manages to get the rap while the others slip by the police unnoticed. Nick refuses to testify on the others, and gets sent up the river for 20 years for robbery. Before he goes to prison, he's assured by the criminal element that his wife and children will be taken care of while he's behind bars (thanks in no small part to his refusal to testify), but this is a blatant lie: during his incarceration, he learns that the family has gone broke, his wife committed suicide and his children have been sent to an orphanage. Furious, Nick summons district attorney Louie d'Angelo (Brian Donlevy) and makes an unusual deal: parole, in exchange for his willingness to squeal on the others. Louie expresses particularly strong interest in nabbing sadistic mob torpedo Tommy Udo (Richard Widmark, in his chilling screen debut), and helps secure Nick's release with the understanding that Nick will ingratiate himself with Tommy. This he does, spending inordinate amounts of time with the psychopath and earning the man's trust. Meanwhile, Nick also falls in love with Nettie (Colleen Gray), marries her, and regains custody of his two young daughters. The family moves to a small house together (with Nick living under an assumed name), but Louie realizes that his cover will soon be blown. To make matters even more complicated, Louie soon comes calling and pressures Nick into testifying against Tommy. Nick hesitates, given his concern that Tommy will come after him as soon as police surveillance lifts. Moreover, Tommy has a few nasty tricks of his own, however, and vows to make life as difficult as possible for Nick. This is the film in which Widmark's character gigglingly pushes a wheelchair-bound old lady down a flight of stairs. Reviewer James Agee said it best: "You feel that murder is the kindest thing he is capable of". The film made Widmark a star--and also convinced him to start lobbying immediately for good-guy roles so that he wouldn't be typecast as maniacal killers for life. Kiss of Death was remade as the 1958 western The Fiend Who Walked the West, then re-remade under its original title in 1994, with David Caruso in the Mature role and Nicolas Cage in the Widmark part, and the violence and nudity dramatically elevated to conform with the times --Allmovie.com."
"A gritty thriller about an ex-convict (Jimmy Kilmartin) out on parole, who is reluctantly lured back into the underworld for one last heist. Caught by a detective, Jimmy makes a deal: his freedom in return for turning informer. Caught between his former criminal associates and government agents, Jimmy is determined to escape from his predicament once and for all."@en
"A gritty thriller about Jimmy Kilmartin, an ex-convict out on parole, who is reluctantly lured back into the underworld for one last heist. Caught by a police detective, Jimmy is offered a deal: his freedom in return for turning informer on the ferociously wired gangster, Little Junior. Now, caught between the ruthless hoods he used to associate with and a group of ambitious government agents, Jimmy reenters a world he is determined to escape once and for all."@en
""Ex-voleur de voitures, Jimmy Kilmartin doit convoyer un chargement de voitures trafiquées pour le compte de gangster psychotique Little Junior. A destination, le convoi est cerné par la police et Jimmy se retrouver incarcéré. Accusé de tentative d'homicide et de récidive, Jimmy risque la prison à perpétuité, à moins qu'il n'accepte un "marché" : infiltrer l'organisation de Little Junior et servir d'indic pour la police fédérale."
""This stylistic thriller is a suspenseful drama of betrayal and violence. Nick Bianco is a small-time hoodlum who's convicted of a jewel heist and sent to Sing Sing. Three years into his term, he is double-crossed by his shyster lawyer and accomplices. He makes a deal with the Assistant D.A., and is paroled, but it's not that easy. Bianco testifies against sadistic murderer Tommy Udo, but he beats the rap"--Container insert."
"This gripping crime melodrama set a new standard for realism in Hollywood. Victor Mature is Nick Bianco, a two-bit crook who is trying to go straight. He has a wife and two girls to feed, but nobody hires ex-cons. Nick cooperates with the D.A. (Brian Donlevy) to save his family. The D.A. wants Nick to squeal on up-and-coming hood Tommy Udo (Richard Widmark), but that could be very unhealthy--for Nick and his two young daughters."@en
"Caruso and a pumped-up, supremely menacing Cage highlight a spectacular cast that also features Samuel L. Jackson as the cop who becomes Jimmy's solitary ally and Stanley Tucci as a Machiavellian district attorney. Novelist Richard Price supplies the screenplay, and director Barber Schroeder (SINGLE WHITE FEMALE) ensures that KISS OF DEATH, based loosely on the 1947 film of the same name, unfolds with the grooved precision of a well-made watch while bristling at every turn with the volatile life of a vividly imagined criminal underworld."
"Bij een overval op een juwelier wordt Nick Bianco als enige opgepakt. De officier van Justitie biedt Nick strafvermindering aan wanneer hij de namen van zijn handlangers prijsgeeft, hetgeen hij weigert."
""THis stylistic thriller is a suspenseful drama of betrayal and violence. Nick Bianco is a small-time hoodlum who's convicted of a jewel heist and ssent to Sing Sing. Three years into his term, he is double-crossed by his shyster lawyer and accomplices. He makes a deal with the Assistant D.A., and is paroled, but it's not that easy. Bianco testifies against sadistic murderer Tommy Udo, but he beats the rap"--Container."