The Murder Men (film)

The Murder Men (later presented as an episode of the TV show Cain's Hundred which was called Blues for a Junkman, in 1962)[1] is a 1961 film starring Peter Mark Richman, James Coburn, and Dorothy Dandridge.

The Murder Men
Directed byJohn Peyser
Written byMel Goldberg
StarringPeter Mark Richman
James Coburn
Dorothy Dandridge
Music byJeff Alexander
CinematographyHarold E. Wellman
Edited byWilliam B. Gulick
John Sheets
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • 1961 (1961)

Plot

Norma Sherman, is a night-club singer and addict who, upon being released from jail, attempts to win back the love of her husband.[2]

Cast

Reviews

One commentator called Dorothy Dandridge's role in this film "one of (her) most interesting late performances".[3] This was her last film.

References

  1. Aberjhani; Sandra L. West (2003). "Dorothy Dandridge". Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. Infobase. pp. 81–82. ISBN 9781438130170. Retrieved February 9, 2011.
  2. Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (1999). Captive bodies: postcolonial subjectivity in cinema. SUNY press. p. 184. ISBN 9780791441558. Retrieved February 9, 2011.
  3. Foster, page 184

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