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Winter Kills

  • 19791979
  • RR
  • 1h 37m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
2.8K
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Winter Kills (1979)
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  • Comedy
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The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter.The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter.The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter.
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
2.8K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • William Richert
  • Writers
    • Richard Condon(book)
    • William Richert(written for the screen)
  • Stars
    • Jeff Bridges
    • John Huston
    • Anthony Perkins
Top credits
  • Director
    • William Richert
  • Writers
    • Richard Condon(book)
    • William Richert(written for the screen)
  • Stars
    • Jeff Bridges
    • John Huston
    • Anthony Perkins
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 52User reviews
    • 64Critic reviews
  • See more at IMDbPro
  • Videos2

    Winter Kills
    Trailer 3:20
    Winter Kills
    Sneak Previews Season 2 Episode 1
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    Sneak Previews Season 2 Episode 1

    Photos23

    Jeff Bridges and Dorothy Malone in Winter Kills (1979)
    Jeff Bridges and Belinda Bauer in Winter Kills (1979)
    Jeff Bridges and Belinda Bauer in Winter Kills (1979)
    Belinda Bauer in Winter Kills (1979)
    John Huston, Kim O'Brien, and Candice Rialson in Winter Kills (1979)
    Jeff Bridges and William Richert in Winter Kills (1979)
    Eli Wallach in Winter Kills (1979)
    Anthony Perkins in Winter Kills (1979)
    Jeff Bridges in Winter Kills (1979)
    Jeff Bridges and Anthony Perkins in Winter Kills (1979)
    Jeff Bridges in Winter Kills (1979)
    John Huston in Winter Kills (1979)

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    Jeff Bridges
    Jeff Bridges
    • Nick Keganas Nick Kegan
    John Huston
    John Huston
    • Pa Keganas Pa Kegan
    Anthony Perkins
    Anthony Perkins
    • John Cerrutias John Cerruti
    Eli Wallach
    Eli Wallach
    • Joe Diamondas Joe Diamond
    Sterling Hayden
    Sterling Hayden
    • Z.K. Dawsonas Z.K. Dawson
    Dorothy Malone
    Dorothy Malone
    • Emma Keganas Emma Kegan
    Tomas Milian
    Tomas Milian
    • Frank Mayoas Frank Mayo
    Belinda Bauer
    Belinda Bauer
    • Yvette Maloneas Yvette Malone
    Ralph Meeker
    Ralph Meeker
    • Gameboy Bakeras Gameboy Baker
    Toshirô Mifune
    Toshirô Mifune
    • Keithas Keith
    Richard Boone
    Richard Boone
    • Keifitzas Keifitz
    David Spielberg
    David Spielberg
    • Miles Garneras Miles Garner
    Brad Dexter
    Brad Dexter
    • Captain Heller Oneas Captain Heller One
    Michael Thoma
    Michael Thoma
    • Ray Dotyas Ray Doty
    Ed Madsen
    • Captain Heller Twoas Captain Heller Two
    Irving Selbst
    • Irving Mentoras Irving Mentor
    Chris Soldo
    • Jeffreysas Jeffreys
    Robert Courtleigh
    • First Mate of T.K.as First Mate of T.K.
    • (as Robert Courleigh)
    • Director
      • William Richert
    • Writers
      • Richard Condon(book)
      • William Richert(written for the screen)
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      This movie was co-financed by two alleged marijuana dealers, Leonard J. Goldberg and Robert Sterling. Sterling was sentenced to forty years for marijuana smuggling while Goldberg, sixteen days before this movie premiered on May 11, 1979, was found handcuffed and shot dead in his New York City apartment, allegedly a hit by mobsters for Goldberg's debt payment failure, on April 25 that year.
    • Goofs
      When Yvette refuses Nick's marriage proposal, she puts her right hand on his face. When the angle changes she suddenly has both hands on his face.
    • Quotes

      John Cerruti: Your father spent eleven million dollars to raise your brother up from a skirt-chasing college-boy to President of the United States. For twenty years he told him what to do and how and why he was gonna do it and what would happen when it was done. Your father put Tim in the White House - why? Because that's where you can generate the most cash; a cold-ass business proposition, like everything else in this society. But your brother decided to stir up the population. Began to think we were all living in a democracy, he started believing it. Lunch with the De Gaulles, dinner with Khrushchev, the whole razzle-dazzle went to his head. Yet in spite of the fact that everybody out there in this country lives in the same dog-eat-dog way, grabbing any angle to make a buck, if you were to inform them that your father had Tim killed, they'd wanna tear the old man apart, limb from limb.

    • Alternate versions
      Reissued in 1983 with deleted scenes restored.
    • Connections
      Featured in Sneak Previews: Beyond the Poseidon Adventure/Rock 'n' Roll High School/Players/Butch and Sundance: The Early Days/Winter Kills (1979)

    User reviews52

    Review
    Top review
    8/10
    have you heard of this movie? you too? me neither...
    Until recently that was. If you're a Jeff Bridges fan and look over his previous body of work on IMDb or netflix, you're soon to come across what looks like a small paranoid assassination/conspiracy thriller from the late 1970s- penned by Manchurian Candidate himself Richard Condon- Winter Kills. And then you'll realize until now you've never heard of the movie, unless you were around for the two weekends it was in release in 1979 or heard the minor blurbs how the picture went through ridiculous difficulty getting made. While one shouldn't group the making of the movie too closely with the final product itself, it's almost as crazy a story as in the film itself (one involving the mob, pornographers, marijuana money, and a re-shoot budgeted by *another* movie shot by the same director in-between in Germany).

    So, as a humble 'who-is-this-guy' movie-buff on this site, I humbly recommend this movie incredibly so. It's a mighty sleeper, a comedy with the intent so black that it's hard to see where the drama stops and the laughs begin. At times it's also weirdly over-the-top (an orgasm at one point is the loudest one has ever seen in a non-porn, and for no real reason except to have it in there, or as part of an "act" perhaps), and with a cast that is irreproachable. Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Sterling Hayden, Eli Wallach, Toshiro Mifune, Elizabeth Taylor - and most of these actors are barely in one scene! Yet everybody leaves there mark so indelibly that one grins from ear to ear suddenly recognizing them (Hayden in particular is a hoot as he practically is like Jack D. Ripper as an old man with a huge beard and a private fleet of tanks)(Huston, too, chews up the scenes he's in without even trying).

    The plot... geez, I can't really say for certain. Let's just call a spade a spade and say it's a spoof on the Kennedy conspiracy (if there was one), and the power and influence of family and politics and the mob. It's a murder mystery, but it almost becomes moot who was the real killer as by the time its uncovered it's simply more fun seeing how one gets from point A to point B. Though Condon might have had a stronger plot for 'Candidate', and first time director Bill Reichert stumbles in a couple of spots in getting the comedy and suspense mixing just right, it's still amazing entertainment more often than not, and it's one of those nifty, strange treasures to be dug out from the video store or queued on a whim on netflix.
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    • Jun 14, 2008

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    • Release date
      • May 11, 1979 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official Site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Philadelphia Clan
    • Filming locations
      • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    • Production company
      • Winter Gold Productions
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $6,500,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $1,083,799
    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,083,799
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 37 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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