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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.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Noir/Articles/BornToKill/BornToKill.html (659 words)

	Born to Kill (1947)
		Film scholar Eddie Muller, who provides the commentary for this 1947 film, calls Born to Kill "one of the finest examples of true hardcore film noir." But you couldn't prove it by film lovers who may have watched other examples of the genre without even knowing it.
		But melodrama kills them all, in the end, rather than complementing their performances as in some of the best noir films.
		Still, Born to Kill is a good place for noir novices to begin, because Muller, author of The Art of Noir and Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir, offers a remarkable commentary that's both fun and informative.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=9468&buy=closed&PID=10119446&Tab=reviews&CID=18 (555 words)

	Biographies, The Scientists: A List.
		Born in Germany, Michelson was to come to American, and, by 1892, had settled into an academic life at the University of Chicago as a professor of Physics.
		Oppenheimer was born in New York and studied at Harvard and at universities, both in England (Cambridge) and on the continent.
		He was born in Chicago, and, at the age of 15, he was admitted to the University of Chicago, graduating in 1947.
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	Enlaces : Arts : Movies : Titles : B : Born_to_Kill :: 100cia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Born to Kill - Dennis Schwartz's review of "a revolting B film noir.".
		Born to Kill - Synopsis and examination of the film that claims "you carry your curse with you inside.".
		Born to Kill (1947) - Robert Weston for Film Monthly reviews "the first and the nastiest of the noirs directed by Robert Wise.".
	www.100cia.com /recursos/enlaces/Arts/Movies/Titles/B/Born_to_Kill (209 words)

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		Emmylou Harris, born in Birmingham, Alabama, country singer, Together Again April 2, 1947 in history...
		Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Jim Yester is the younger brother of guitarist/singer/producer Jerry Yester...
		Sad because after 45 years, she's leaving the neighborhood she was born in.
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	Guardian \| Lawrence Tierney
		In his book, The Devil Thumbs A Ride And Other Unforgettable Films, Barry Gifford wrote of Tierney, playing another of his classic mean-man roles in Born To Kill (1947): "The big lug is a squinty-eyed killer, a rock-hard devil with women, the big brute fantasy come alive in all of his horrifying glory.
		It is still hard to believe in him as the liberal ex-con who launches an inmates' welfare league in San Quentin (1947), or as an ex-cop hero trying to clear his name on a murder charge in Bodyguard (1948).
		As the bullet-man in Born To Kill, Tierney, in a fit of jealousy, commits a double murder, and says his ambition in life is to "fix it so's I can spit in anybody's eye".
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4365400-103684,00.html (670 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Film Noir Classics Collection 2 - DVD - Subtitled / Mixed Media Set
		Edward Dmytryk’s Crossfire (1947), the second-best film in the box, aroused some controversy with its then-daring exploration of anti-Semitism, which rears its ugly head during the frenzied search by police for an insane ex-solider in the wake of WWII.
		Somehow the titles of the films of hardcase actor Lawrence Tierney seemed to be extensions of the man's personality, as witness such films as The Devil Thumbs a Ride and Born to Kill.
		Born to Kill was based on {James Gunn's} novel Deadlier Than the Male.
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	vir.cc :: Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 2 (Born to Kill / Clash by Night / Crossfire / Dillinger (1945) / The ...
		"Born to kill" was defective and I couldn't play it in my DVD player.
		Later that night Sam confronts Laury's date in the boardinghouse kitchen and a violent fight insues and Sam, in impressive fashion, kills the other man. Laury then comes in the kitchen and discovers the body and then Sam kills her.
		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.
	www.vir.cc /B00097DY20/Film_Noir_Classic_Collection__Vol__2_Born_to_Kill___Clash_by_Night___Crossfire___Dillinger_1945___The_Narrow_Margin_1952.html (2225 words)

	DVD - Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol. 2 (Born to Kill / Clash by Night / Crossfire / Dillinger (1945) / The Narrow ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Born to Kill (1947) is the second helping of Tierney, playing a psychotic drifter who's irresistible to women ("His eyes run up and down ya like a searchlight!" breathes housemaid Ellen Colby, just about the only female he doesn't bother targeting).
		A number of people end up dead by his hand, but the kicker is that he crosses paths with a woman--socialite-divorcee Claire Trevor--just as heartless as he, and even more treacherous.
		Three Roberts--Young, Mitchum, and Ryan--costar in Crossfire (1947), one of only a handful of noirs to be sanctified with Academy Award nominations: best picture, director Edward Dmytryk, screenwriter John Paxton, and supporting players Ryan and Gloria Grahame.
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	Urban Entomology [Ebeling Chap. 9 part 3] Pests Attacking Mand and His Pets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Areas in California where rodents are periodically killed by plague extend from the northeastern part of the state through the Sierra Nevada to the Tehachapis, and also in the coastal areas between San Francisco and Ventura County.
		When rats are killed, the mites leave their bodies and may travel great distances, particularly along the heating pipes in the walls, for when they are not engorged with blood they are very active.
		It should also be borne in mind that trapping or otherwise killing rats may increase the attacks on the inhabitants of the house for a time because of the suddenly increased number of mites that leave the bodies of the dead rats.
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	DVD Savant Review: Born to Kill
		Even though the production code of 1947 would never allow it, what Born to Kill most resembles is the hardboiled literature of Jim Thompson, the brilliant author of lurid fictions with titles like Hell of a Woman and The Kill-Off.
		Born to Kill can't begin to sketch a world as dirty as what Thompson sees.
		Born to Kill is said to be one of RKO's more expensive pictures, with location shooting in San Francisco and Reno, but a lot of it still takes place against rear-projected screens.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s1658kill.html (1554 words)

	Lawrence Tierney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tierney was born in Brooklyn and earned an athletic scholarship to Manhattan College, but he dropped out to travel around the country, bouncing from job to job.
		In 1943, RKO studios signed Tierney to a contract when a talent scout spotted him among members of the American-Irish Theater.
		His starring role in the popular Dillinger led him to play other tough-guy characters in such films such as San Quentin, The Devil Thumbs a Ride, and Born to Kill.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lawrence_Tierney (237 words)

	Born to Kill Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		And it should be more unsettling that he turns up in San Francisco, where he complicates her life, and the lives of her heiress half-sister (Audrey Long) and fiancé (Phillip Terry).
		But melodrama kills them all, in the end, rather than complementing their performances as in some of the best noir films.
		Still, Born to Kill is a good place for noir novices to begin, because Muller, author of The Art of Noir and Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir, offers a remarkable commentary that's both fun and informative.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=9468 (836 words)

	Los Angeles Magazine: queens of mean - film noir actresses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In Born to Kill (1947), she broadcast enough wanton viciousness to live up to the picture's original rifle, Deadlier Than the Male.
		Born Doris Jensen, a genuine farmer's daughter from the cornfields of Nebraska, Gray scored critical notice in Kiss of Death (1947), the first time she would use those winsome doe eyes to implore a crooked mug to sample the straight and narrow.
		In the latter, as part of an edgy ensemble of last-chance losers, she was the lone, plaintive vote for love in a world desperate for the big score.
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	Born_to_Kil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Born to Kill - Cast, crew, synopsis and review from the All Movie Guide.
		Born to Kill (1947) - Synopsis, photo gallery and cast information from the American Film Institute.
		Born to Kill (1947) - Cast, crew and reviews from the Internet Movie Database.
	www.oxalia.org /verzeichnis/Arts/Movies/Titles/B/Born_to_Kill (99 words)

	Born to Kill
		This is Sam Wilde, a man who knows what he wants, is insanely jealous of what he has, and will kill to keep it.
		Marty finds out who hired the detective and attempts to kill her, but Sam thinks he's trying to cut in on his action and kills him.
		If that sounds like your cup of tea, Born to Kill is one of the best films out there...
	www.tranquility.net /~benedict/borntokill.html (790 words)

	DVD : Film Noir Classic Co11ection, Vol. 2 (Born to Ki11 / Clash by Night / Crossfire / Di11inger (1945) / The Narrow ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Born to Ki11 (1947) is the second helping of Tierney, playing a psychotic drifter who's irresistible to women ('His eyes run up and down ya like a searchlight!' breathes housemaid E11en Colby, just about the only fema1e he doesn't bother targeting).
		A number of people end up dead by his hand, but the kicker is that he crosses paths with a woman--socia1ite-divorcee Claire Trevor--just as heartless as he, and even more treacherous.
		0n the Born to Ki11 commentary, director Robert Wise mentions that Tierney was an intimidating tough guy in rea1 life and was repeatedly arrested for getting in fights in bars.
	www.readingtime.info /ItemId/B00097DY20 (1688 words)

	Amazon.com: DVD: Born to Kill (1947) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		That man does other people wrong, too, because, after all, he is born to kill.
		There seems to be no other reason for his rampant killing, which is what attracts Trevor (kinky), even after he marries her rich sister.
		1947's "Born to Kill" is one of the noir genre's most cold-blooded, brutal depictions of murder, greed, betrayel and lust ever made and one of Robert Wise's best early films.
	www.eigo-i.com /shows/B00097DXY4/Born-to-Kill.html (2298 words)

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		GRADE: C- "Narrow Margin" is one of the gems of film noir, a low-budget B movie set aboard a train carrying a hard-boiled cop guarding a gangster's widow being transported across the country to testify at a trial.
		GRADES: "Narrow Margin" A-, "Crossfire" B+, "Clash by Night" B, "Dillinger" B-, "Born to Kill" C+ Lynn Redgrave's portrayal of Georgy, the overweight London girl of the "swinging '60s," made her a star.
		In this sophisticated British comedy, she is raising her roommate's illegitimate child and becomes the romantic target of a sophisticated, older married man, James Mason, who wants to make her his mistress.
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		Gaston Leroux was born in Paris, the son of a wealthy storeowner.
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		Opera singer Christine, the ingénue of the Phantom, must choose between the Phantom and the Viscount, whom she loves.
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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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	dOc DVD Review: Born to Kill (1947)
		K has Helen's number when she says, "You're the coldest iceberg of a woman I ever saw, and the rottenest inside," for instance, and Sam sums up his dilemma succinctly: "I got a dame on my mind and she's dead.
		That's plenty for me." (What he doesn't say, of course, is that he's the one who killed her.) The plot is too Byzantine to make this a paradigm of the genre, but this one makes for a great guilty pleasure.
		Image Transfer Review: Some of the images are sharp, but there are resolution problems—plaids on the ladies tend to shine, and there are occasional shots that look a whole lot worse, the victims of bacterial decay.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=7539 (690 words)

	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.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /classic/borntokill.shtml (477 words)

	TroyRutter.com - VHS : Born to Kill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		"Born to Kill" is a taut little film noir, directed by the superbly versatile Robert Wise whose other credits include such classic gems as "The Body Snatchers", "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "The Haunting" (1963), and "The Sound of Music".
		Lawrence Tierney stars as a sociopathic killer who marries the rich and innocent sister of scheming femme fatale Claire Trevor; thrown together in the same household, Tierney and Trevor proceed to...
		In "Born to Kill," available singly but part of a second DVD boxed set, Wise steers a steady stylistic course while at the same time driving in reverse.
	www.troyrutter.com /6302182859/Born_to_Kill.htm (510 words)

	"Born to Kill" - 1942 Chrysler Crown Imperial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		For those of you into film noir and/or 1941 Crown Imperials watch the film "Born to Kill" with Lawrence Tierney, Claire Trevor and Walter Slezak.
		Although the film was made/released in 1947 all the cars are 1941 models and there are no postwar models.
		The best scene is when Walter Slezak (playing the detective) walks up the drive to a large mansion where a wedding is taking place.
	www.forwardlook.net /iml-archive/msg94019.html (263 words)

	Night of the Soul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 1947 the House Committee on Un-American Activities began its witch-hunts and the movie industry lost some of its taste for controversial subjects and pessimistic, down- beat themes.
		But the most killing blow of all was the American people themselves.
		By the mid-1950s Eisenhower was president, prosperity had arrived, the bomb had not fallen on Cleveland (or Tallahassee or Portland) and didn't seem likely to, and by and large America had a pretty bourgeois view of itself.
	library.calumet.purdue.edu /nitesoul.htm (6264 words)

	Rovisoft - Arts Movies Titles B Born to Kill - Free Directory Listings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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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.
	www.afi.com /wise/films/born_to_kill/btk.html (790 words)

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