• Stanley Kubrick: Killer’s Kiss, 1955

  • Stanley Kubrick: Killer’s Kiss, 1955

  • Stanley Kubrick: Day of the Fight, 1951

  • Saturday, Jun 27, 2026

    7 PM (83 mins)
    BAMPFA

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Killer’s Kiss

Stanley Kubrick
United States, 1955
featuring

Jamie Smith, Irene Kane, Frank Silvera, Mike Dana,

Ever the cunning creator, Kubrick determined what murky settings in his New York City neighborhood he could exploit for a low-budget film. Then he had screenwriter Howard Sackler cast a net of words over them. The result is an ever-menacing mood piece about an exhausted taxi dancer (Irene Kane) and a has-been boxer (Jamie Smith) who must endure the jealous jockeying of a nightclub owner (Frank Silvera). The working title, Kiss Me, Kill Me, says it all—sex and violence are wed like a curb to the gutter.

Steve Seid
FILM DETAILS 

Screenwriter

  • Stanley Kubrick
  • Howard Sackler

Cinematographer

  • Stanley Kubrick

Print Info

  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 67 mins

Source

  • Park Circus

Preceded By

Day of the Fight

Stanley Kubrick, United States, 1951

A photogenic middleweight boxer, Walter Cartier, has a fight at 10 PM. In his first film, Kubrick documents Cartier’s pre-fight routine.

FILM DETAILS 

Print Info

  • Color
  • 35mm
  • 16 mins
source
  • Library of Congress

Additional Info

  • preserved by Library of Congress

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