Killer's Kiss (1955)
1955 film by Stanley Kubrick
- Released
- 1955
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Boxing film
- Director
- Stanley Kubrick
- Screenplay
- Stanley Kubrick, Howard Sackler
- Producer
- Stanley Kubrick
- Music
- Gerald Fried
- Cinematography
- Stanley Kubrick
- Editing
- Stanley Kubrick
- Starring
- Frank Silvera, Chris Chase, Barbara Brand, Felice Orlandi, Ruth Sobotka
- Running time
- 67 minutes
- Production company
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Distributor
- United Artists, Netflix
- Set in
- New York City
Killer's Kiss is a 1955 American independent film noir directed, photographed, edited, and produced by Stanley Kubrick and written by Kubrick and Howard Sackler. It is the second feature film directed by Kubrick, following his 1953 debut feature, Fear and Desire. The film stars Jamie Smith, Irene Kane, and Frank Silvera.
The film is about Davey Gordon (Jamie Smith), a 29-year-old middleweight New York boxer at the end of his career, and his relationship with his neighbor, taxi dancer Gloria Price (Irene Kane), and her violent employer Vincent Rapallo (Frank Silvera).
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Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.