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This
little-seen 1979 film is an adaptation of a novel
by The Manchurian Candidate author Richard Condon.
It plunges into the JFK assassination and the
conspiracy theories that surround it. Winter Kills
provides a perfect, absurd finale to the half-decade
of post-Watergate paranoid thrillers that preceded
it and compares favourably to the grand unified
conspiracy-theory fictions that followed, such
as Oliver Stone's JFK and James Ellroy's book
American Tabloid. Financed by soft-porn distributors
with a sideline in the drug trade, the production
continually ran out of money, at one point forcing
Richert to make another movie, The American Success
Company, in order to raise funds for its completion.
Though Winter Kills met with glowing reviews,
it received a limited release in only a few cities,
prompting Condon to write an article blaming the
Kennedys and the military-industrial complex.
Perkins' character's possible involvement went
without comment.
Critics
“Exhilarating kaleidoscope of a movie” Amazon.com
Programme
Notes
The
notes for this film are available here.
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Director
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William
Richert
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Writers
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Richard
Condon
William Richert
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Cast
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Jeff Bridges
John Huston
Anthony Perkins
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Cert |
15 |
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Length |
1
hour 36 mins |
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Country |
USA
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