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"Blast of Silence:" a long-forgotten masterwork of the crime genre, made on a shoe-string

Posted by tinear on May 17, 2012 at 08:28:00:
budget by Allen Baron, writer/director/actor.
Beautifully restored w/a period jazz score: the black and white photography is a great example of noir at its best.
A middle-aged hit man from Cleveland arrives in New York at Christmas time to dispatch a mid-level mafia boss. The quintessential loner, the assassin is dismayed to be recognized by a childhood chum he knew from his orphanage upbringing. Worse still, the gun dealer he must deal with, a massive and creepy individual, suddenly becomes greedy.
Leaving all excess drama and romance aside, Baron's film is a no-nonsense, quasi-documentary-like view of a man who thinks he can live his life in total emotional isolation.
Throughout the film, voiceover communicates his thoughts. Though I'm usually a hater of this film style, in this film, because of the actor's voice and the words themselves, it works.
The final scene, incidentally, was filmed during an actual tempest, Hurricane Donna. The Netflix copy comes with excellent additional material such as an interview with Baron as he retraces the locations and supplies us with interesting facts, i.e. the voiceover was done by an out-of-work black-listed (McCarthy) character actor.