Winter Kills
Film
Film: Inventory:Inventory book excerpt: No, seriously, you're next! 15 movies where the crazies are right...accurately as his addled state of mind will permit. Unfortunately, the film goes downhill from that hilariously giddy moment onward. 11. Winter Kills (1979) Working from a novel by Richard Condon (The Manchurian Candidate, Prizzi's... In this article: Gregory Peck, Donnie Darko, God, Matthew McConaughey, Brad Pitt, Julianne Moore, John Lithgow, Bill Paxton, Jason Miller, and Mel Gibson |
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Wikipedia | November 04, 2009
Philadelphia Police Department (Pennsylvania)
...Happening '' by director M. Night Shyamalan. PPD Mounted and several Patrol cars appear in a strange early Jeff Bridges film-titled ,"Winter Kills " -from 1979. Movie has a bizarre history- included Elizabeth Taylor & John Huston..yet never...
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Wikipedia | October 26, 2009
Berry Berenson
...McDowell. She starred opposite Anthony Perkins in the 1978 Alan Rudolph film ''Remember My Name and opposite Jeff Bridges in the 1979 film Winter Kills. On 9 August 1973, in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Berenson married the actor Anthony...
In this article: Berry Berenson, Senda Berenson, Anthony Perkins, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Marisa Berenson, Cape Cod, American Airlines Flight 11, AIDS, and Vogue
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Wikipedia | October 25, 2009
William Richert
...titled Presidents' Daughters. He directed several other documentaries (including Derby, and A Dancer's Life) and the feature films Winter Kills '', ''American Success Company, A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, The Man in the Iron Mask,...
In this article: William Richert, Aaron Sorkin, The American President, Directors Guild of America, 20th Century Fox, Richard Nixon, Gus Van Sant, A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, The West Wing, and My Own Private Idaho
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Wikipedia | October 09, 2009
Winter Kills (film)
Winter Kills is a 1979 film based on the novel by Richard Condon. The film is distinguished by having a high-powered cast, including John Huston, Toshiro Mifune, Sterling Hayden, Anthony Perkins, Elizabeth Taylor, Jeff Bridges, and Susan...
In this article: William Richert, Richard Condon, Leonard Goldberg, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Bankruptcy, American Film Institute, Newsweek, and Susan Walden
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Wikipedia | September 29, 2009
John F. Kennedy assassination in popular culture
...Icarus, who flies too close to the sun. The investigator himself is killed when he comes too close to the truth. In the 1979 film Winter Kills, U.S. President Timothy Kegan is shot in Philadelphia at Hunt Plaza. The ensuing presidential...
In this article: Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy assassination, John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Watchmen, Wyatt Earp, Joe DiMaggio, Dallas, and Richard Nixon
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Wikipedia | December 25, 2008
Christopher Horner (director)
...with a degree in architecture and environmental design, Chris accepted a job with MGM as a set designer. He worked on films such as Winter Kills, Comes a Horseman, Altered States, The Jazz Singer and the Emmy-award-winning Friendly Fire for...
In this article: Christopher Horner, The Jazz Singer, Anthropology, Global warming, MGM, James Horner, Friendly Fire, Miracle Mile, and Comes a Horseman
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Wikipedia | August 24, 2008
Candice Rialson
...Rialson found herself typecast as a sex kitten, and had difficulty obtaining new roles. Her last role was in the 1978 political thriller ''Winter Kills '' Quentin Tarantino claimed Rialson was the inspiration for Bridget Fonda's character...
In this article: Candice Rialson, Bridget Fonda, Quentin Tarantino, Jackie Brown, and Santa Monica, California
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Wikipedia | May 25, 2008
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Fair use rationale Winter Kills (film) This image is being used to illustrate the article on the movie in question and is used for informational or educational purposes only. This image is of low resolution. It is believed that this...
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Iron Man The A.V. Club
...business he makes himself an inviting target to rivals, including enigmatic father figure Jeff Bridges, who looks disconcertingly like Winter Kills co-star Sterling Hayden with his shaved head and mad-prophet beard. Iron Man takes its...
In this article: Robert Downey Jr., Iron Man, Errol Flynn, Jon Favreau, Iron Man, Hulk, The A.V. Club, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges, and Sterling Hayden
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My Year Of Flops Case File #89 Aren't You Even Gonna Kiss Me Goodbye?/A Night In The Life Of Jimmy Reardon The A.V. Club
...to have chosen me rather than the other way around. A few days ago, I got a mysterious package from cult filmmaker William Richert (Winter Kills). It contained a homemade dub of his director's cut of a film he made with River Phoenix that...
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Winter Kills is a 1979 film based on the novel by Richard Condon. The film is distinguished by having a high-powered cast, including John Huston, Toshiro Mifune, Sterling Hayden, Anthony Perkins, Elizabeth Taylor, Jeff Bridges, and Susan Walden. Most of the film was lensed by cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond. The director, however, was a novice named William Richert.
The production went so far over budget that it was shut down three times and declared bankruptcy. The film had been produced by two wealthy marijuana dealers—Robert Sterling and Leonard Goldberg. Goldberg was murdered by the mafia in the middle of production, for failure to pay his debts, and Sterling was later sentenced to 40 years in jail for drug smuggling. William Richert and much of the cast went to Germany and filmed a comedy called The American Success Company which made enough money to fund a resumption of Winter Kills two years later.
Influential publications including the New York Times, Newsweek, and the New Yorker gave positive reviews but it made little money when released. Richard Condon and William Richert hypothesize that distributor Embassy Pictures killed it deliberately in order to avoid threatening defense contracts elsewhere in the conglomerate.
The film simplifies the plot of the book somewhat, and emphasizes humor. The ending of the movie is ambiguous, leaving it unclear whether President Kegan had been killed by his father (John Huston), or the father's assistant, John Cerruti (Anthony Perkins).
Many of the film's interior scenes were shot in 1977 at the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills, then home to the American Film Institute's film school.
- Name:
- Winter Kills
- Country of Origin:
- USA
- Release Date:
- May 11, 1979
- Directed By:
- William Richert
- Produced by:
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- Fred C. Caruso
- Daniel H. Blatt
- Editor:
- David Bretherton
- Starring:
- Cinematography:
- Vilmos Zsigmond
- Music By:
- Maurice Jarre
- Distributed By:
- AVCO Embassy Pictures
- Length:
- 97 min
- Language:
- English
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