Kid Glove Killer

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Kid Glove Killer

1942

1h 14m

Crime

Drama

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Ambitious attorney Jerry Ladimer (Lee Bowman), working for mob boss Matty (John Litel), gets a new mayor (Samuel S. Hinds) elected to help further his own political plans. When the mayor vows to destroy the city's organized crime network, Jerry has him murdered and frames a local business owner (Eddie Quillan) for the crime. But the city's new crime laboratory, run by Gordon McKay (Van Heflin) and his feisty assistant, Jane Mitchell (Marsha Hunt), can find evidence pointing to the real killer.

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Variety Staff

Variety

11/01/2007

One of those moderately-budgeted programmers that appear at long intervals to rise far above the level intended.

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Theodore Strauss

New York Times

08/08/2006

4/5

A first-rate job all round.

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Geoff Andrew

Time Out

06/24/2006

Fred Zinnemann's feature debut, a neat, unpretentious and really rather enjoyable whodunit about the hunt for the killer of the town's crusading mayor.

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Yasser Medina

Cinefilia

07/07/2021

6/10

Despite having a solid role from Van Heflin, its plot about corruption and murder never escapes the common grounds of B-movie film noir. [Full review in Spanish]

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TV Guide

11/01/2007

3/4

A terrific debut film for both Van Heflin and for Fred Zinnemann in the director's chair.

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Film4 Staff

Film4

05/24/2003

The taut plot is well served by the style of documentary fiction Zinnemann applied to a few of his earlier films.

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08/04/2017

The feature film debut of director Fred Zinnemann, the man who'd later go on to direct such classics as "High Noon" and "From Here to Eternity," kicks things off with a solid little police thriller. Van Heflin, an actor who I'm always baffled at how he became a leading man, plays a police chemist uncovering the mayor's murderer. This is strictly B-Movie material, but it's well done and even if you don't see the brilliance you'd see in later Zinnemann films, you do see that he's a solid filmmaker. Certainly worth checking out.

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@ScottR 05/14/2012

A well made forensics mystery/drama.

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06/21/2009

Fred Zimmerman's excellent direction guides this film along at a fast and interesting pace. Good performance by van Hefllin. A very solid and compelling thriller.

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01/21/2008

good stuff from Zinnemann

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02/07/2007

Fred Zimmerman's excellent direction guides this film along at a fast and interesting pace. Good performance by van Hefllin. A very solid and compelling thriller.

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Synopsis

Ambitious attorney Jerry Ladimer (Lee Bowman), working for mob boss Matty (John Litel), gets a new mayor (Samuel S. Hinds) elected to help further his own political plans. When the mayor vows to destroy the city's organized crime network, Jerry has him murdered and frames a local business owner (Eddie Quillan) for the crime. But the city's new crime laboratory, run by Gordon McKay (Van Heflin) and his feisty assistant, Jane Mitchell (Marsha Hunt), can find evidence pointing to the real killer.

Director: Fred Zinnemann
Producer: Jack Chertok
Screenwriter: Allen Rivkin, John C. Higgins
Production Co: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (DVD): Apr 28, 2015
Runtime: 1h 14m

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