In a career that includes over seventy films, Henry Hathaway is probably best remembered for two periods: the mid-thirties, with Lives of a Bengal Lancer and the remarkable Peter Ibbetson; and the postwar genre of semi-documentary film noirs which he helped inaugurate. Kiss of Death, filmed almost entirely on the streets of New York, has become a classic film noir, notable for the anxious tension that Hathaway and scriptwriters Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer achieve, and the stylish cinematography by Norbert Brodine which captures Manhattan's Tombs, Sing Sing and row houses in Queens with almost jarring elegance. Victor Mature is well cast as a hapless ex-con who steals again to support his family, winds up in jail, and is released to live in mortal terror of retribution after he informs on his associates. And Richard Widmark became known ov