# Kiss of Death (1947)

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**Runtime**: 99 min
**Genres**: Crime, Thriller
**Directed by**: Henry Hathaway
**Written by**: Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer, Eleazar Lipsky
**Starring**: Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark, Taylor Holmes, Howard Smith

> *From her lips there is no escape!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Sing Sing. Christmas. A squeal. Fresh from prison, he wants out of the rackets. But a vindictive psychopath will draw him back into the underworld. Hathaway at his most fatalistic.

**Mood tags**: dread, paranoid, raw

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