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Murder by Contract
Directed byIrving Lerner
Written byBen Simcoe
Produced byLeon Chooluck
StarringVince Edwards
CinematographyLucien Ballard a.s.c.
Edited byCarlo Lodato
Music bymusic composed and played by Perry Botkin
Production
company
Orbit Productions
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • December 1958 (1958-12) (United States)
Running time
81 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Murder by Contract is a 1958 American film noir crime film directed by Irving Lerner. Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Ben Maddow did uncredited work on the film. Centering on an existentialist hit man assigned to kill a woman, the film is often praised for its spare style[1] and peculiar sense of cool.[2]

The film has exerted an influence on American cinema, most notably on director Martin Scorsese, who famously cited Murder by Contract as "the film that has influenced [him] most."[1]

  1. ^ a b Review: Murder by Contract
  2. ^ Rosenbaum, Jonathan (June 20, 1996). "Murder by Contract". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 15 June 2020.

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