Category: Vince Edwards
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‘Murder by Contract’: This Guy Kills Me
Vince Edwards, Caprice Toriel, ‘Murder by Contract’ (1958). Dreams of a suburban home, picket fence and a garden can lead a man to homicide By Paul Parcellin “I want to be a contractor,” announces Claude (Vince Edwards), a determined, 30ish guy in the middle of an unusual kind of job interview at the start of…
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Out of the Shadows (and onto the Cathode Ray Tube)
Raymond Burr in ‘Pitfall’ (1948). Film noir heavies and second bananas of the 1940s got respectable in the late ‘50s and ‘60s when they morphed into TV doctors, lawyers and sitcom moms and pops. But could they ever wash the stage blood off their hands? You mean Mom and Pop were once arch criminals? Jeepers!…