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Actors: Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Eli Wallach, Sterling Hayden, Dorothy Malone, Ralph Meeker, Toshiro Mifune, Richard Boone
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Winter Kills |
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Based on the Richard Condon book, WINTER KILLS is a movie written and directed by William Richert in 1978.
Nick Kegan is the brother of President Timothy Kegan who was assassinated 19 years before. One day, a dying man confesses to him that he was one of the gunmen who killed his father and that the gun he used then is still hidden in Philadelphia with his fingerprints on it.
Nick Kegan decides to start his own investigation, along with his father, but the people who could help him are murdered one by one or drive him towards false leads.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Winter Kills |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 70%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Legal/Political Thriller?
Yes
Political Plotlets:
- investigating murder of politician(s)
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 60's-90's
Profession/status:
- businessman, big
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- white
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
Desert?
Yes
Water?
Yes
Water:
- peddle boat
City?
Yes
City:
- dangerous
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- frustrated
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude male butt
- seeing full frontal--women
- sex under blankets
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- perforation--bullets
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding bombs
Is this movie based on a
- book
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