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Blast of Silence is a 1961 American neo-noir film written, directed by, and starring Allen Baron, with Molly McCarthy, Larry Tucker, and Peter H. Clune in supporting roles. Set during Christmastime, it follows a hitman who returns to his native New York City to commit a murder for hire.
This low-budget, carefully crafted portrait of a hit man on assignment in Manhattan during Christmastime follows its stripped-down narrative with mechanical precision, yet also with an eye and ear for the oddball details of urban living and the imposing beauty of the city.
- Frank Bono
Blast of Silence (Allen Baron, 1961) begins dramatically with an audacious and innovative opening shot. For the first couple of seconds of the film, the screen is entirely black. Then slowly a tiny pinprick of light begins to emerge from the centre of the screen.
Dec 23, 2023 · Synopsis. Swift, brutal, and blackhearted, Allen Baron’s New York City noir Blast of Silence is a sensational surprise. This low-budget, carefully crafted portrait of a hit man on assignment in Manhattan during Christmastime follows its stripped-down narrative with mechanical precision, yet also with an eye and ear for the oddball details of ...
Blast of Silence, despite its graphic vigor and its documentary-like immediacy, shares some of its hero’s radical isolation from his surroundings: a stubborn neither-here-nor-thereness and—especially now, nearly half a century later—a haunting sense of being somehow suspended in time.
Directed by Allen Baron. Get deep inside the rage-fuelled psyche of a brutal hit man as he stalks the city and his prey in what Bright Lights Film Journal called, “ the great lost masterpiece of film noir; a twilit, deathward emanation of everything that had underlain the form from its beginnings.” 35mm, b/w, 77 min. Part of:
Mar 15, 2021 · Blast of Silence (1961) – source: Universal Pictures. This is a dismal tale, dismally told by Baron and his collaborators, who sculpt an existential prison out of shadow and sound. Every filmmaking choice diminishes and isolates Frankie, emphasizes his powerlessness, and situates us deep within the dark heart of his consciousness ...
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