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Winter Kills Movie Review Summary

Actors: Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Eli Wallach, Sterling Hayden, Dorothy Malone, Ralph Meeker, Toshiro Mifune, Richard Boone

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Based on the Richard Condon book, WINTER KILLS is a movie written and directed by William Richert in 1978.
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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.
The review of this Movie prepared by Daniel Staebler



Script Analysis of Winter Kills

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Plot & Themes

Composition of Book 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 Nudity    -   Chest and Buttocks Ethnicity/Nationality    -   White (American)

Setting

United States    -   Yes The US:    -   West Desert?    -   Yes Water?    -   Yes Water:    -   peddle boat City?    -   Yes City:    -   dangerous

Writing Style

Accounts of torture and death?    -   gory visuals of deaths 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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