Blast of Silence

1961
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1h 17m

IMDb RATING

7.4/10

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Allen Baron and Molly McCarthy in Blast of Silence (1961)

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.

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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 gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.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 gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.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 gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.

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IMDb RATING

7.4/10

YOUR RATING

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Allen Baron

Frank Bono

Molly McCarthy

Lori

Larry Tucker

Big Ralph

Peter Clune

Troiano
(as Peter H. Clune)

Danny Meehan

Petey

Howard Mann

Body Guard

Charles Creasap

Contact Man

Bill DePrato

Joe Boniface
(as Bill Da Prado)

Milda Memenas

Troiano's Girl Friend

Joe Bubbico

Body Guard

Ruth Kaner

Cleaning Woman

Gil Rogers

Gangster

Jerry Douglas

Gangster

Don Saroyan

Lori's Boy Friend

Dean Sheldon

Night Club Singer

Bill Chadney

Pianist
(uncredited)

Ernest Jackson

Gangster
(uncredited)

Erich Kollmar

Bellhop
(uncredited)

Director
- Allen Baron
Writers
- Allen Baron
- Waldo Salt
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Featured review

9/10

beautiful lit images - effective sound

This B& W film, set in New York uses its locations and actors with great skill. The sound editing is very effective and adds moments of tension to the atypically dark contrasty lighting. One shot of an exterior street is enormously powerful without any action beside the cityscape. The director has a great eye - not as good at acting as directing though. If you like film noir - this low budget film is worthy of your viewing.

soundmxr
Sep 19, 1998
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Trivia
Part of the movie was shot during the middle of a real hurricane --- the wind and snow seen during the final scenes is not artificial. The exterior chase that ends the film was filmed at the Old Mill on a Jamaica Bay estuary on Long Island during Hurricane Donna (September 10-12, 1960), the only hurricane of the 20th Century to strike the entire East Coast from south Florida to Maine.

Goofs
The "silencer" (or suppressor) that Frankie Bono attaches to his revolver could not have worked due to the gap between the cylinder and barrel of the gun. They are only effective on semi-automatic or automatic weapons, except for one special revolver (when the film was made), the Nagant M1895. The Nagant had a 7-round cylinder, but Frankie's gun was a 6-shooter. This is a very common mistake in films.

Quotes
Narrator: You're alone. But you don't mind that. You're a loner. That's the way it should be. You've always been alone. By now it's your trademark. You like it that way.