Blast of Silence

Allen Baron, 1961

Spine #428

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Crime / Drama / Thriller

Criterion TMDB

Directed by Allen Baron

Written by Allen Baron, Waldo Salt

Cinematography Merrill S. Brody

Edited by Merrill S. Brody, Peggy Lawson

Cast Allen Baron, Molly McCarthy, Larry Tucker, Bill DePrato, Peter H. Clune, Danny Meehan, Joe Bubbico, Gil Rogers

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Tim Blake Nelson actor

“Allen Baron's Blast of Silence and what I love about the Criterion Channel is that you can discover movies on it and I love Noir. I'd never heard of this movie. It is one of the best hardboiled unsentimental detective movies shot with mostly an objective camera... But what the best aspect of it is the voiceover. It's some of the best voiceover I've ever encountered in a film. This one is not to be missed.”

Tim Blake Nelson