Killer's Kiss
1955
Synopsis
Boxer Davey Gordon paces the concourse at New York’s Penn Station, waiting for his girl, Gloria, and a train to take them away from the city. He turns over in his mind the tumultuous events that led him there, involving a boxing match, a mannequin warehouse, a ballerina, and some ruthless gangsters.
Editorial
Made with funds raised by a local chemist, Stanley Kubrick’s pugilistic noir—his second feature—announced the arrival of an era-defining artist. Benefitting from the exacting eye Kubrick had developed as a photojournalist, KIller’s Kiss captures a bygone 1950s New York in cold, shadowy monochrome.
