Double Feature
Murder by Contract
Vince Edwards plays a hitman-for hire; he’s cool, calm, and always prepared… until he’s tasked with murdering a high-profile mob witness. The issue isn’t that he’s sentimental that his target is a woman, it’s that women are harder to kill. And when this contract killer appears to be coming up short, he’ll soon discover that his trusted associates are now out to snuff him. Irving Lerner’s hypnotic Murder by Contract is a razor-sharp noir thrill ride that Martin Scorsese acknowledges as a major influence on Taxi Driver.
- Director
- Irving Lerner
- Starring
- Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi, Caprice Toriel
- Year
- 1958
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 81 minutes
City of Fear
An escaped killer holds the lives of millions in his hands! Vince Edwards stars in director Irving Lerner’s taut noir as a convict clinging to a canister he believes holds riches in heroin but actually contains enough radioactive Cobalt-60 to destroy Los Angeles and beyond. Disaster looms across California as the frenzied fugitive is slowly poisoned by his toxic prize and authorities desperately try to avoid mass panic.
- Director
- Irving Lerner
- Writer
- Steven Ritch and Robert Dillon
- Starring
- Vince Edwards, John Archer, Patricia Blair, Steven Ritch
- Year
- 1959
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 81 minutes