Winter Kills (film)
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| Directed by | William Richert |
| Produced by |
Daniel H. Blatt Fred C. Caruso |
| Written by |
Richard Condon (novel) William Richert (screenplay) |
| Starring |
Jeff Bridges John Huston Anthony Perkins Eli Wallach Sterling Hayden Dorothy Malone Tomás Milián |
| Music by | Maurice Jarre |
| Cinematography | Vilmos Zsigmond |
| Edited by | David Bretherton |
| Distributed by | AVCO Embassy Pictures |
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97 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $6 million |
| Box office | $1,083,799 |
Winter Kills is a 1979 film, directed by William Richert, based on the novel by satirist Richard Condon. A black comedy fictionalising the assassination conspiracy of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, its cast includes Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Eli Wallach, Richard Boone, Toshirō Mifune, Sterling Hayden, Dorothy Malone, Ralph Meeker, Elizabeth Taylor, Berry Berenson and Susan Walden.
Most of the film was lensed by cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, and the production designer was Robert Boyle, who cited the film as one of his favorites. The director, however, was relative novice William Richert.
The film simplifies the plot of the book somewhat, emphasizing humor. It follows the events surrounding the assassination of President Kegan (patterned after John F. Kennedy). Several years later, the President's brother Nick (Bridges) discovers leads which suggest there may have been a plot to kill the Chief Executive. The ending of the movie is ambiguous, leaving it unclear whether President Kegan had been killed by his father (Huston), or the father's assistant, John Cerruti (Perkins).
Nick Kegan (Bridges) is the son of world-famous tycoon Pa Kegan (Huston) and the younger half-brother of the late U.S. President Timothy Kegan, who was slain by a lone sniper 19 years earlier. When an ex-convict named Arthur Fletcher (Joe Spinell) makes a deathbed confession to Nick, claiming that he was the second of two riflemen who shot the president and was sub-contracted by an unknown agency, Nick sets off on a quest to discover the truth about his late brother's murder.
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