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Plot summary
Gloria Price dances for a living at a New York dance hall, and Davey Gordon, a middleweight boxer whose career is winding down, lives in the same building. Their windows face each other, and they trade glances without speaking. Both leave for work one day: Davey to fight Kid Rodriguez, Gloria to the dance hall run by her boss, Vincent Rapallo, who makes advances toward her. Davey loses the fight, goes home, and hears from an uncle asking him to come back to the family farm near Seattle. He wakes to Gloria screaming and crosses the roof to her apartment, where Rapallo has been attacking her. The next morning the two share breakfast, Gloria talks about her sister Iris, and they plan to leave for Seattle together after collecting their final payments.
Cast
- Jamie Smithas Davey Gordon
- Jerry Jarrettas Albert
- Mike Danaas Gangster
- Barbara Brandas Taxi Dance Lady
- David Vaughanas Conventioneer #1
- Alec Rubinas Conventioneer #2
- Ralph Robertsas Bouncer #1
- Phil Stevensonas Bouncer #2
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Killer's Kiss (1955)
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Against Kubrick's wishes, United Artists required the film be recut with a happy ending; the company paid $100,000 for the film and agreed to provide another $100,000 for Kubrick's next picture, The Killing.- Kubrick originally recorded sound live on set, but grew so frustrated with the microphone getting in the way of his lighting setups that he fired his sound recordist and dubbed the entire film's audio afterward, just as he had on Fear and Desire.
- The film is notable for location shots in the old Penn Station, demolished in 1963, as well as Times Square and the run-down streets of the Brooklyn waterfront and of Hell's Hundred Acres, the nickname at the time for Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood.
- The making of Killer's Kiss later became a film in itself: in 1983 Matthew Chapman directed Strangers Kiss, a film that portrayed the making of Killer's Kiss.
