A very well done noir with terrific performances - esp. Richard Widmark's film debut as the dangerous, slimy Tommy Udo. A great Ben Hecht/Charles Lederer script & Henry Hathaway's expert directing make the film come together in an entertaining, taut enjoyable thriller. Victor Mature is very good in this - when I was a kid the first things I saw him in were the "epics" like Samson & Delilah and I always found Mature wooden and not much of an actor. But his work in this and in other noir like Cry of the City and I Wake Up Screaming shows Mature was a very capable, talented actor
Review of Kiss of Death
