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Meurtre sous contrat

Titre original : Murder by Contract
  • 1958
  • 16
  • 1h 21min
NOTE IMDb
7,2/10
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Meurtre sous contrat (1958)
Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer - until he finds his next target is a woman.
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Film NoirCrimeDramaThriller

Claude est un tueur à gages impitoyable et efficace ; jusqu'à ce qu'il découvre que sa prochaine cible est une femme.Claude est un tueur à gages impitoyable et efficace ; jusqu'à ce qu'il découvre que sa prochaine cible est une femme.Claude est un tueur à gages impitoyable et efficace ; jusqu'à ce qu'il découvre que sa prochaine cible est une femme.

  • Réalisation
    • Irving Lerner
  • Scénario
    • Ben Simcoe
    • Ben Maddow
  • Casting principal
    • Vince Edwards
    • Phillip Pine
    • Herschel Bernardi
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  • NOTE IMDb
    7,2/10
    5 k
    MA NOTE
    • Réalisation
      • Irving Lerner
    • Scénario
      • Ben Simcoe
      • Ben Maddow
    • Casting principal
      • Vince Edwards
      • Phillip Pine
      • Herschel Bernardi
    • 68avis d'utilisateurs
    • 41avis des critiques
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
    • Récompenses
      • 1 nomination au total

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    Vince Edwards
    Vince Edwards
    • Claude
    Phillip Pine
    Phillip Pine
    • Marc
    Herschel Bernardi
    Herschel Bernardi
    • George
    Caprice Toriel
    • Billie Williams
    Michael Granger
    Michael Granger
    • Mr. Moon
    Kathie Browne
    Kathie Browne
    • Mary
    • (as Cathy Browne)
    Joseph Mell
    Joseph Mell
    • Harry
    Frances Osborne
    Frances Osborne
    • Miss Wiley
    Steven Ritch
    • Detective Shooting Tear Gas
    Janet Brandt
    Janet Brandt
    • Woman in Movie Theater
    Davis Roberts
    Davis Roberts
    • Hall of Records Clerk
    Don Garrett
    • James William Mayflower
    Gloria Victor
    • Miss Wexley
    Albert Cavens
    Albert Cavens
    • Theatre Patron
    • (non crédité)
    Cisco Houston
    • Gun Salesman
    • (non crédité)
    William H. O'Brien
    William H. O'Brien
    • Hotel Take-Out Delivery Man
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    • Réalisation
      • Irving Lerner
    • Scénario
      • Ben Simcoe
      • Ben Maddow
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    7secondtake

    Stylized and spare to the point of awkwardness, but somehow utterly fresh, too...

    Murder by Contract (1958)

    This cult-style low budget film is both fascinating and detached to the point of coldness (if not boredom), and whether you'll like or not might depend on attitude. The relentlessly cold-blooded murderous main character (played by Vince Edwards), in his late-50s handsome and sharply dressed style, is just false enough (if not exactly unconvincing) to keep the movie from taking on a life of its own in any conventional sense. We spend a lot of time watching this man get phone calls and then perform murders of various kinds (off camera, for the most part), and then zero in on the big one with a couple cronies watching. And yet he isn't especially fascinating or complex, just very hardened and determined. And so his functional presence, good looking as it might be to some viewers, isn't enough to lift up the movie.

    And yet the story is told in such rapid, spare, and matter-of-fact terms it's downright original. I can't think of a movie like it, though I just happened to see "Blast of Silence" which is a far better low-budget story of a gunman, and it comes from the same period (1961). What helped that later movie, and many other offbeat non-Hollywood affairs, is all the location shooting (that is, the locations themselves were fascinating), and "Murder by Contract" almost studiously avoids any sense of place, or mood and ambiance from a place (except for bright, spare, fringe of L.A. stuff, which is nice). This series of mostly rooms and interiors (some with the same oddly speckled walls and doors) creates a blankness that is both drab and defining.

    If this movie isn't really existential in the dramatic Orson Welles sense (or Carol Reed, or what the heck, Stanley Kubrick), the main character really is a film noir staple of a man out of place in the world and utterly utterly alone. His solution is a cold and increasingly false one--kill kill kill. For money, all toward some dream house on the Ohio River, of all places. I think the idea there is that his dream is actually modest, not some love nest in the south of France, but rather a place of honest comfort, like the farm Sterling Hayden returns to in "Asphalt Jungle." It may be no coincidence that Ben Maddow worked on the screenplay for both films.

    So if you can adapt to the minimalist style (and acting), and absorb the rather intelligent cinematography by Lucien Ballard (a big name for this small film), you might start to see why it has such a lasting reputation. The music is pretty terrific, a kind of 1950s electric guitar ambiance ahead of its time. In fact, much of the movie is forward thinking out of desperation to make it cohere and succeed without any money. Director Irving Lerner (famously caught spying for the Soviets during WWII though never prosecuted) has had a long career as a secondary director or editor to some of the greats in Hollywood, and some of that talent and visual acumen is shown off here, whatever the larger limitations.
    9secragt

    Nearly Flawless

    Frankly, I came in expecting little from this totally anonymous abbreviated 50s crime drama and left the theatre shocked at how much bang for my 67 minutes I got. I am hard-pressed to think of another movie of this length which accomplishes as much plotwise or entertains as much audiencewise as this thoroughly neglected late-50s gem.

    Vince Edwards leaps off the screen with amazing charisma to burn and Bernardi and Pine are nearly as effective as the hapless bumbling mobsters assigned to chaperone him through his contract. Conflict, wit, suspense, and outright humor abounds in this simultaneously clever and tense little script. Even the non-existent production values are completely camouflaged by economic and nimbly staged set-pieces.

    The ending is probably the one weak point... it's a bit sudden and anti-climactic given what the movie seems to be building to. However, the good performances, nifty cinematography (some good POV work), and satisfyingly unconventional script make this slightly warped b-movie a classic which deserves far, far more attention. Melodramatic? Hell yeah. But in the best self-aware and crowd-pleasing tradition. 9/10 and worthy of the time of any crime drama or noir fan. Trust me.
    8MOscarbradley

    A small classic

    A B-movie and something of a small classic comparable to Melville's "Le Samourai" which it may have influenced. Vince Edwards in his pre-Ben Casey days is the young man who actually wants to be a contract killer and the movie is about his somewhat clinical initiation into the job. Superbly written by Ben Simcoe, brilliantly photographed in black and white by Lucien Ballard and with a terrific yet simple score by Perry Botkin this movie comes close to perfection. It was directed by Irving Lerner who up to then hadn't really done anything of note, (perhaps he was just waiting for the right material). Edwards is superb as the almost overly confident killer who comes undone when he has to kill a woman. It's a very simple picture, in which almost all the killings are kept off-screen concentrating instead on the killer's psychology and how he goes about his work. Never a commercial success it has now build up a considerable cult following.
    8BruceCorneil

    Simple but highly effective

    Entertaining, low budget crime thriller.

    Vince Edwards was tailor made for the role of Claude, a cool and calculating hit-man who has to bump off a beautiful woman before she spills the beans to the authorities about a certain criminal King Pin.

    Edwards starred in several of these well crafted bargain basement efforts just before he became an international TV star as Dr Ben Casey.

    Stylish direction and some interesting camera work compliment a thoughtful script. Be watching for one particularly unsettling scene which unfolds in a barber shop. Masterfully underplayed but makes a lasting impact.

    Just like a sling - shot, this excellent little film is simple but highly effective.
    Coppin_C

    I know Quentin had to have seen this flick!

    This little gem has dialogue to die for. Production values? We don't need no stinking production values. Not with lines like "You know what you have to be to get a gun like that, George? A civilized country. Are you a civilized country?" Vince Edwards is awesome. I am convinced this is an ancestor of "Pulp Fiction".

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    • Anecdotes
      Shot in seven days.
    • Gaffes
      Claude crawls through quite a length of drain pipe and the crawl space beneath Billie's house, but emerges into her living room with no dirt on his clothes or person.
    • Citations

      Claude: The only type killing that's safe is when a stranger kills a stranger. No motive. Nothing to link the victim to the executioner. Now why would a stranger kill a stranger? Because somebody's willing to pay. It's business. Same as any other business. You murder the competition. Instead of price-cutting, throat-cutting. Same thing. There are a lot of people around that would like to see lots of other people die a fast death... only they can't see to it themselves. They got conscience, religion, families. They're afraid of punishment here or hereafter. Me...

      [laughs]

      Claude: I can't be bothered with any of that nonsense, I look at it like a good business. The risk is high but so is the profit.

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      Featured in Century of Cinema: Un voyage avec Martin Scorsese à travers le cinéma américain (1995)

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    • Date de sortie
      • 26 octobre 1960 (France)
    • Pays d’origine
      • États-Unis
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Murder by Contract
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Chaplin Studios - 1416 N. La Brea Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Californie, États-Unis
    • Société de production
      • Orbit Productions
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    • Durée
      1 heure 21 minutes
    • Couleur
      • Black and White
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.85 : 1

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