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- 1961
- Approved
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 17 m
- 1961
- Approved
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 17 m
Summary A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York, but a special girl from his past and a fat gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.
Directed By: Allen Baron
Written By: Waldo Salt, Allen Baron
- 1961
- Approved
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 17 m
- 1961
- Approved
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 17 m
Blast of Silence
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Summary A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York, but a special girl from his past and a fat gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.
Directed By: Allen Baron
Written By: Waldo Salt, Allen Baron
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
75
80% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
75
80% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
20% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Directed, written by and starring Allen Baron, it's a totally absorbing picture: dark, curt, rancid and lean in the best noir style. [28 Apr 1998, p.C01]
About 30 years ahead of its time, Blast of Silence follows a hit man (Baron) who heads to New York over the holidays and finds the Christmas spirit interfering with his killer instincts. [13 Apr 2008, p.E10]
Filmed for the cost of about two Snickers bars and given a bizarre voice-over narration in the second person, this seductively weird pioneer independent feature is the ultimate in grimy period atmospherics. [25 Apr 2008, p.5E]
Blast is as bleak as noir gets, packed with black-and-white images of '60s New York City that recall Jean-Pierre Melville's French thrillers, and a street-tough taste that suggests Cassavetes and points ahead to Scorsese. [29 Oct 2004, p.C2]
There's lots to recommend this shoestring picture, not the least of which is Baron's acting ability.
Molly McCarthy, however, is deceptively unaffected as the heroine, and her spirited attack on her two big scenes has the quality of the film as a whole—over-eager, unsuccessful, but worth watching.
Haunting, remote, and workmanlike, Blast of Silence may be the only film I’ve ever seen with a trip on the Station Island Ferry in which I expected a tumbleweed to flit across the deck.
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