Kiss of Death (1947)





Nick Bianco is caught during a botched jewellery heist. The prosecution offer him a more lenient sentence if he squeals on his accomplices but he doesn't roll over on them. Three years into the sentence an event changes his mind.


Vintage magazines

2 films complets 13, 01-10 1948

Books with substantial mentioning of Kiss of Death

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Geoff Mayer and Brian McDonnell
Encyclopedia of Film Noir
Westport, Connecticut/London, 2007

Jack Shadoian
Dreams & dead ends, The American gangster film
Oxford; New York, 2003

Christian Unucka
Richard Widmark und seine Filme, Ein filmographischer Bildband
Hebertshausen, 1984

Tony Thomas
The Films of the Forties
Secaucus, NJ, 1980

Books with an entry on Kiss of Death

Michael F. Keaney
Film Noir Guide, 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2003