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  eBay - Product Info - eBay - VHS: Born to Kill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
A sleek thriller about insecurity, infidelity, and murder, BORN TO KILL, based on a novel by James Gunn, is a dark and gritty melodrama that probes the ever-lurking dark side of human nature and the results of giving in to those impulses.
Born to Kill (1947) This is one of the benchmark movies that define film noir.
Born to Kill has a superb script that moves the viewer effortlessly from beginning to end through a complex maze of deceit, murder, and twisted motives coming from the various characters that make up the cast.
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 Born to Kill (1947 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born to Kill, a 1947 fl and white film, was the first film noir directed by Robert Wise, who later directed The Set-Up (1949), The Captive City (1952), and Odds Against Tomorrow (1959).
In the commentary for the 2005 DVD release of Born to Kill, film noir historian Eddie Muller suggests that the character of Laury Palmer--a party girl who spends most of the movie as a murder victim--may have been an inspiration for Laura Palmer in David Lynch's TV series Twin Peaks.
The phrase "Born to Kill" was also used in Full Metal Jacket.
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 Combustible Celluloid film review - Born to Kill (1947), Robert Wise, Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, dvd review
Robert Wise's Born to Kill is a true film noir.
In Born to Kill our hero is a woman, which is exceedingly rare, even within the genre, since men are far more easily duped.
Born to Kill was notable in its day for showing divorce, adultery, gambling, and the works, and director Wise seems just as disgusted by it as anyone.
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 BBC News | UK | In defence of cats
He demolished birds' nests, killed butterflies and many other invertebrates.
People ask why they kill when they are clearly well-fed - but a cat's motivation to hunt is quite separate from its desire to satisfy hunger."
Mr Hattersley's own dog, Buster - who himself famously killed a goose in a royal park - is "an avenging angel" for attacking these "sleek assassins".
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 Tehelka - The People's Paper
They are firing guns and killing people when they should be in school.
They give you a gun and you have to kill the best friend you have.
If you don’t kill him, your friend will be ordered to kill you.
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 Bubblegum Crisis: Born to Kill
As the SuperBoomer is hauled away in a truck through an usually unused entrance, the replacement explodes, killing all of the men and women in the laboratory.
When they stop at a restaurant, Irene informs Linna that she intends to expose GENOM as the liars and murderers that they are.
Irene is terrified as the Boomer shoves her claws into Irene's heart and kills her.
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 Amazon.com: Born to Kill: DVD: Claire Trevor,Lawrence Tierney,Walter Slezak,Phillip Terry,Audrey Long,Elisha Cook ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
While I was aware, before "Dillinger" and BORN TO KILL, of Lawrence Tierney and how his self-destructive behavior derailed a promising career, I thought he was wooden in both films.
On the Born to Kill commentary, director Robert Wise mentions that Tierney was an intimidating tough guy in real life and was repeatedly arrested for getting in fights in bars.
"Born to Kill" is not as persistent in its sexualization of violence as "Gun Crazy", but it's there.
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 Born to Kill (1947)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Plot Summary: In Reno a man kills a girl he likes and her boyfriend out of jealousy; it may not be the first time...
Tierney's intense character, his hot temper and insane paranoid jealousy are, well, fun to watch once you get to like this actor and his tough-guy roles.
Tierney, in this film, would kill over the slightest thing that would suggest to him that he might be getting double crossed.
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 Born to Kill - Moviefone
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 Born To Kill (1947)
The working title for Born To Kill was 'Deadlier Than The Male' (from the pulp novel by James Gunn).
As the title suggests, Born To Kill is a film about the grimmest corners of the human condition, the wicked place where sex, corruption and violence join hands and rumba round in darkness.
Director Robert Wise suggests that we all share a collective dark side, that one way or another we are all 'born to kill,' and in the final throw of the dice, only the incontrovertible laws of chance can set the record straight.
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 borntokill
His plan is to have Marty locate the client and kill her.
But Tierney and Trevor made all of them look like choir boys, as their performances led them to take enormous pleasure in their cruelty to others and in their unbridled lust they had for each other.
I guess one should be grateful that Tierney didn't kill Laury's pet dog when he brutally went into his killer act.
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 VH1.com : Movies : Born to Kill : Plot
In the latter picture, Tierney starts the ball rolling by committing a double murder in a jealous pique.
When Tierney finally does face arrest, it's at the instigation of the jealous Trevor, who is shot full of holes for her trouble.
Born to Kill was based on James Gunn's novel Deadlier Than the Male.
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 Street Time: Born to Kill - TV.com
The gang robs the restaurant where Pho is working; and the leader tries to force Pho's brother to kill the owner.
He suddenly turns away and kills the gang leader instead.
Tell the world what you think of Born to Kill, write a review for this episode.
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 purevolume™ | Born to kill
Born to kill has led an uneventful life, and thus has yet to post any entries.
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 Born to Kill
The killer is her neighbor's other boyfriend, who won't abide anyone "cutting in" on him.
This is Sam Wilde, a man who knows what he wants, is insanely jealous of what he has, and will kill to keep it.
If that sounds like your cup of tea, Born to Kill is one of the best films out there...
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 AFI: Robert Wise - Born to Kill
After he discovers that Laury Palmer, the owner of a Reno boardinghouse, was romancing him only to make her boyfriend Danny jealous, Sam Wilde, a seductive but violent drifter, kills both her and Danny.
Kraft, who has come to San Francisco, but when Marty goes to Helen's bedroom to warn her about Sam's violent nature, Sam assumes he is flirting with her and kills him as he is about to kill Mrs.
After Sam is shot and killed by the police, Helen dies of her wounds.
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 Threadless T-Shirts - Born to Kill
This could be considered plagiarism of full metal jacket.
yeah plagerism and its stupid because like 99.9% of the people in the army AREN'T born to kill and i bet alot of them wouldn't either if the army wasn't paying their way thru college.
You might want to be careful with using an idea straight off the Full Metal Jacket movie poster....clean work though....
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 BORNTOKILL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
"more like a...cacophony" Born To Kill's most recient effort is out now.
Norman Records in Leeds, UK likens BTK to Biosphere(!?)
Ignatius of rocket racer is initiating his new label out of Portland, OR with a hot comp.
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 Born to Kill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Born to Kill to receive a rating.
(1947)-BORN TO KILL was a 'shocking' movie back then and now it's fl FILM NOIR fun!!
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 floating                (born to ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Floating is the official fanlisting for the song Born To Kill by Matthew Good Band.
Image is a screen cap from a music video from one of Matt Goods songs.
Coded in notepad and imaged edited in photoshop 7.0
broken.forsaken-faith.org /songs/born   (39 words)

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