Interesting early Kubrick film!

Hi everyone! I'm a regular denizen of the discussion board for 2001: A Space Odyssey (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/board), but I had to drop by HERE after watching Killer's Kiss for the first time the other night. The movie was shown on the peripheral cable service known as This TV, and I think it's the ONLY Stanley Kubrick film I had heretofore not seen (other than the rarely seen Fear and Desire.

Let me state at the outset that Kubrick has always been my favorite director, and that's why I was so happy to stumble across a broadcast of Killer's Kiss,, which was only his second feature film. Although this movie was filmed on the cheap (when Kubrick himself was actually on welfare!) and lacked a lot of finesse of his later films, there were certain shots and sequences that seemed to prefigure some of those later films. I was particularly impressed by the final confrontation between Davy the boxer and the axe-wielding mobster Vincent in a storeroom full of naked mannekins (which brought to mind both The Shining and the Korova Milkbar in A Clockwork Orange). I was also intrigued by the ballet sequence featuring Kubrick's second wife, Ruth Sobotka.

Killer's Kiss is not a perfect film and has a few lapses in logic and continuity, but it also displays some glimpses of brilliance that Kubrick would refine so well later in his career.

CHUCK ANZIULEWICZ
http://anziulewicz.livejournal.com/100382.html