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  Dressed to Kill (1946)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dressed To Kill was the last of the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies.
After attempting to kill Holmes, she is caught at the end.
Dressed To Kill is a good way to spend just over an hour one evening.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0038494   (322 words)

  
 DVD Review: Dressed to Kill: SE
SOUND: "Dressed to Kill" is presented in a new Dolby Digital 5.1 edition, which is actually quite good, considering the age of the film.
Slashing "Dressed to Kill": This 12 minute featurette deals with the fact that Depalma was faced with the necessity to cut scenes and elements from the picture due to the fact that the filmmakers were faced with an "X" rating for the picture if they didn't.
Dressed to Kill: Comparison: This is an entertaining featurette that shows the differences between the R, Unrated and TV versions of a few scenes from the picture.
www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews4/dressedsedvd.html   (1056 words)

  
 DVD Review - Dressed To Kill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
And whether you consider DePalma’s work as an homage or hijacking of The Master (a comparison that thoroughly bores DePalma anymore), "Dressed to Kill" delivers inventive visual cues and multiple POV setups that further engage viewers while building levels of suspense that are riveting to the point of near-discomfort.
MGM Home Entertainment presents "Dressed to Kill" in a 16x9 anamorphic transfer framed at the film’s original 2.35:1 aspect ratio.
Though not a film for the squeamish or easily embarrassed, "Dressed to Kill" is a grand achievement in visual storytelling and precision of execution.
www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/dressed_to_kill.shtml   (917 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Horrors (Dressed to Kill)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
She thought the dye in the dress had faded, so she went to the washroom and took off the dress.
They investigated the department store where she had bought the dress and learned that the dress had been sold for a corpse and had been returned and sold to the girl.
The girl dies because the embalming fluid (usually said to be formaldehyde) asphyxiates her by closing her pores, by entering her pores and embalming her alive, by causing her blood to coagulate, or by simply poisoning her.
www.snopes.com /horrors/poison/dress.htm   (1226 words)

  
 Record-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dressed in camouflage and wearing thermal underwear, they poured tarsal gland oil on their boots from deer they've skinned to attract their prey.
The hunter gets to see deer up close before trying to kill them, but there is more of a chance of a deer writhing in pain before dying with a shot from an arrow than with a bullet from a rifle.
Picone said most hunters try to kill as humanely as possible and he notes that bears, bobcats and coyotes don't concern themselves with how long it takes for their prey to die.
www.record-journal.com /articles/2003/12/28/news/news04.txt   (1244 words)

  
 TroyRutter.com - DVD : Dressed to Kill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
To condemn Dressed to Kill as a Hitchcock rip-off is to miss the sheer enjoyment of Brian De Palma's delirious 1980 thriller.
The similarities between "Dressed to Kill" and Alfred Hitchcock's psycho are clear and well defined.
There are sequences in DRESSED TO KILL that may be as formally accomplished as any film sequences ever made.
www.troyrutter.com /ItemId/B00005K3NU   (591 words)

  
 The New York Times: Premium Archive
Dressed to Kill is, appropriately, about a split personality, a furious transvestite who goes clomping around Manhattan in large high heels, a blond wig, dark glasses, and a fl raincoat, carrying a straight razor ready to slash any woman who arouses the man in him.
De Palma's screenplay, though it's adequate to the kind of entertainment Dressed to Kill is. Unlike The Fury, which was a collection of big, splashy, loosely strung-together set-pieces, Dressed to Kill is one succeeding spectacular effect after another.
Dressed to Kill is difficult to describe without giving away unmentionable things.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=EE05E7DF173AE067BC4D51DFB166838B699EDE   (777 words)

  
 Dressed to Kill (1980)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Advertised as a main star, she is killed off within the first forty minutes, right after DePalma masterfully convinces us that the story isn't going to be about murder at all.
In this regard "Dressed to Kill" is a masterpiece -- a movie that shocks us at every turn, even when we have a feeling we know where it's going.
Although it isn't flawless, "Dressed to Kill" is a very fun movie and a must-see for film buffs.
us.imdb.com /Title?0080661   (986 words)

  
 Dressed To Kill
To delve further into the plot would be unfair, as Dressed to Kill is a fine mystery-thriller that should be approached with as little foreknowledge as possible by first-time viewers.
Of the four films De Palma made from 1976 to 1981, Dressed to Kill is the one most obviously structured around a series of stylishly dramatic set-pieces, often sexual, violent, and/or suspenseful.
Dressed to Kill is finally a somewhat shallower film than Carrie, though much more tightly constructed and well-polished than The Fury.
www.dvdmaniacs.net /Reviews/A-D/Dressed_to_Kill.html   (1179 words)

  
 DRESSED TO KILL (1980)
Released in the summer of 1980, DRESSED TO KILL was met with a public and critical reaction that ran from acclaim to unqualified disgust...
DRESSED TO KILL opens with a scene that would rouse even the most complacent audience.
Also, one could argue that Allen's Liz Blake is the strongest character in the script, using streetwise instincts and an understanding of men gleaned from her profession to get her through more than one tight situation.
www.briandepalma.net /dressed/dtk.htm   (744 words)

  
 Dressed To Kill
Again, DRESSED TO KILL ended up with their made-up faces in Kerrang!, however this time, with a less than favourable review by a 'where are they now?' journalist.
DRESSED TO KILL were to share Bullet-train carriages with Joe Satriani and his touring band; jam KISS, Black Sabbath, and Led Zeppelin tunes in a bar with members of American Metal band Savatage, and UK Queen tribute band 'The Royal Family'; and enjoy many of the delights that Japan had to offer.
2002 for DRESSED TO KILL was all about solidifying their much-increased fan-base, carrying on from what 2001 had been about; though their 11th 'birthday' was spread over THREE shows- the first at the Hard Rock Café, Nottingham; the second at The Standard, Walthamstow; and the third at the Diamond, Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
www.kissinuk.com /dtk   (1677 words)

  
 DVD REVIEW: DRESSED TO KILL-SPECIAL EDITION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He wants us to believe "Dressed to Kill" is a story about a 40-something woman on a journey of sexual awakening.
At that moment, it becomes apparent that "Dressed to Kill" isn't about Kate, but about the high- priced call girl who stumbles across her body in an elevator.
"Dressed to Kill" begins and ends with a shower sequence, and in between De Palma showers us with buckets and buckets of suspense and thrills.
www.lightviews.com /dressedtokilldvd.htm   (1124 words)

  
 ToxicUniverse.com - Brian De Palma - 1980 & DVD 08/28/01 - Dressed to Kill Movies Review
Dressed to Kill is proud of the way it pushes the envelope of good taste --not unlike the way Alfred Hitchcock delighted in breaking rules and going a little too far when he was making films like Rope, Rear Window, Vertigo, The Trouble with Harry, Psycho or Frenzy.
Dressed to Kill gives several characters to care about, largely accomplished with the charisma actors like Michael Caine and Angie Dickinson bring to their roles.
The short featurette Slashing Dressed to Kill details the controversy caused by the film and we learn about the feminist groups and numerous critics who were very unhappy with the film's sex, violence and perceived attitude.
www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10002340   (2071 words)

  
 DVD Verity -- Dressed To Kill: Special Edition
De Palma had proven he was fearless in trying new approaches, and not afraid of failure if they didn't work (something he has carried on through the subsequent decades, with a seemingly ever-diminishing return).
There are three segments on the differences between the 'unrated' cut, the 'R-rated cut' and the broadcast television version - the last being "Slashing Dressed To Kill", in which everyone involved tries hard to justify artistic license as the reason for the more bloody and sexual unrated cut.
"Dressed To Kill" is not a truly bad film by any means - it is derivative and predictable, but amusing (in a way I don't think was intended), and does indeed contain some great set pieces.
www.dvdverity.com /review_dressedtokillse.html   (955 words)

  
 Dressed to Kill - DVD Movie Central
Dressed to Kill was one of the first movies ever to cause controversy in the last place any filmmaker would want to receive any; the MPAA.
The sound quality on Dressed to Kill is ironclad proof that MGM is capable of delivering quality sound to an impressive number of early releases.
There is also another documentary titled “Slashing Dressed to Kill” which offers some insight into what De Palma had to go through in order to garner an R rating, and an appreciation by co-star Keith Gordon.
www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/dressed_to_kill.htm   (957 words)

  
 Liturgical Vestments, Catholic, Protestant, Anglican, Lutheran, High Priest's garments, ephod,
It was sought at an earlier era to derive the Christian priestly dress from the vestments of the Jewish religion.
Choir dress (abito paonazzo) is the most formal dress for clerics at liturgical events, worn when they are not celebrating.
So the priests were dressed, as prescribed by God, with a skirt (ephod or "loin cloth"), a tunic (top), a turban, and a belt, but no shoes or sandals while inside the Temple.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/1611/vestmentsofpriests.html   (4943 words)

  
 Dressed to Kill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Dressed to Kill (disambiguation).
Dressed to Kill is a 1980 horror film written and directed by Brian de Palma.
Dressed to Kill (1980) at the Internet Movie Database
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dressed_to_Kill   (282 words)

  
 KISS Discography 1971-1975
Dressed To Kill has several songs that are true classics including KISS' signature song, Rock and Roll All Nite, which is still a party staple almost 25 years later.
Dressed To Kill was the first KISS album released by Casablanca which had a gimmick: the embossed border around the picture on the front cover.
During the tour to support Dressed To Kill, KISS recorded several of their shows and decided to release a live recording as their next project, rather than another studio album, hoping that the energy of their live shows would transcend on to vinyl.
members.shaw.ca /amazingone/disc7175.html   (4176 words)

  
 ajc.com | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Dressed to kill: Street gangs adopt athletic apparel as their uniforms | ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dressed to kill: Street gangs adopt athletic apparel as their uniforms
Dressed to kill: Street gangs adopt athletic apparel as their uniforms
Keeping up with the dress code is difficult for investigators, who say it seems that every professional and college sports team has in some way been adopted by one gang or another.
www.ajc.com /sports/content/sports/0603/05gangs.html   (1355 words)

  
 KISS expo .co.uk :::::: you wanted the best and you got it!
Indeed KISS themselves have mentioned DRESSED TO KILL in many interviews, and look on them with great respect.
Since the very beginning the smoking guitar, fire breathing, pyrotechnics etc and their abitily to put on a show looking and sounding identical to KISS has stood them apart from other Kiss tributes.
DRESSED TO KILL will continue to thrill Kiss fans and introduce others to their music the whole world over.
kissexpo.co.uk /pages/dtk.html   (149 words)

  
 Daily Edifier: Dressed to Kill
In the 1980 Brian DePalma directed thriller Dressed To Kill, Michael Caine plays a psychiatrist to a murdered woman who was reluctant to get involved in the investigation.
We dress not to impress, but dress to kill.
Before Boaz the kinsman-redeemer met his wife, he was so Ruthless that Ruth got dressed up to the nines to impress this very important man for something that hasn’t happened yet because God only blesses prepared people, because when the time comes, we may not have a chance to get ready.
www.angelfire.com /de3/eaglenet/434_dressedtokill.html   (350 words)

  
 Dressed To Kill: Costume In Xena: Warrior Princess
From the Mad Max-inspired fl leather identifying warlords and their minions to the homespun peasant garb for villagers, it is consistent, which adds to the believability of the locales and characters, rather than drawing unnecessary attention to dress or settings.
Ares dresses to outdo the (usually hapless) warlords he commands, an arresting figure in fl (except for the alternate universe episodes where he is hilariously "Elvis" in white).
Xena then threatens to dress in smelly skins to repel would be suitors.
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 Dressed to Kill (1980) - A Review by David Nusair
Dressed to Kill represents DePalma's most obvious homage to Hitchcock - and one of his most successful movies.
Filled to the brim with DePalma's characteristic visual flair, Dressed to Kill is an amazing film just to look at.
Dressed to Kill contains a great deal of impressive thrills and over-the-top slasher antics, but it's DePalma's inventive style and the quality of acting that makes the movie more than just a forgettable horror flick.
www.reelfilm.com /dressed.htm   (436 words)

  
 DVD Verdict Review - Dressed To Kill (1941)
While Dressed to Kill doesn't do anything revolutionary with the gumshoe formula, that was never really the film's intention—it's just a very solid, character-driven B-mystery programmer.
Arriving on the crime scene in Dressed to Kill, not only does Shayne immediately procure the murder victim's stash of cigars, but he then proceeds to move objects around the room and pockets vital evidence for his own use.
Dressed to Kill is a well-crafted mystery certainly deserving of a DVD release, but I have to question Fox's logic in the marketing of this title.
www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/dressedtokill1941.php   (1072 words)

  
 Amazon.com: DVD: Dressed to Kill (1980)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The killing scene in the elevator is extremely disturbing and brutal, and made even more so in the unrated version.
Still, "Dressed to Kill" has that clearly dream like De Palma signature to it which is classic De Palma.
While not a classic nor a pure horror movie, "Dressed to Kill" is a must own hybrid horror movie that I highly recommend to anyone who enjoys Hitchcockian styled suspense thrillers with an element of horror to it...you won't be disappointed.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005K3NU?v=glance   (2327 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Crime File - Cross-dressed to kill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A cross-dressing, bearded Hasidic man wearing blue eye shadow and pink pumps was busted on charges of killing a 75-year-old rabbi who had taken him into his home, police said yesterday.
Goldstein was dressed in a gray blouse with a plunging neckline, dark slacks and pink high-heeled shoes, a police source said.
Goldstein confessed to the murder while being interrogated, saying he killed Sultan after the elderly man demanded his share of the rent, the source said.
www.nydailynews.com /news/crime_file/story/247004p-211567c.html   (604 words)

  
 Dressed to Kill
Dressed to Kill: Inside the Mind of the Very First Female Palestinian Suicide Bomber
After she killed herself, the Jihad Committee in Ramallah issued her photograph to the media.
That evening her mother was a guest of honor at a celebration in the street where Wafa’a lived.
www.americanfreepress.net /10_18_03/Dressed_to_Kill/dressed_to_kill.html   (2683 words)

  
 Dressed to Kill (1980): Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Keith Gordon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dressed to Kill gained notoriety at its release for the high sex content (the opening shower scene and the taxi cab seduction), particularly as it showed a married woman in her forties having a voracious sexual appetite, and it certainly gave Dickinson's career a late boost.
Unappreciated and unfulfilled housewife Angie Dickinson has a fling with a stranger she meets by chance in an art gallery, only to be killed by a knife-wielding maniac as she enters the elevator to leave her lover's apartment.
Unsatisfied with the line the police are taking on their enquiries, her son (Keith Gordon) decides to investigate himself, with the help of Allen, a high-class prostitute who discovered the body.
www.citizencaine.org /films/dressed-to-kill.shtml   (675 words)

  
 Dressed to Kill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Once Tinling was spirited off to King's Houston hideaway, he opened his luggage to reveal a silk-lined dress of opalescent cellophane threads stitched onto nylon.
In the dress, on September 20, 1973, she crushed Riggs with her serve and volley game, winning the match 6-4, 6-3, 6-3.
Given the loaded symbolism of the Battle of the Sexes and King's own bitter memory of being excluded from a tournament group photograph at age 11 because, unable to afford a tennis dress, she was wearing a shirt and shorts, her choice of a posh Tinling creation was somewhat unexpected.
smithsonianmag.com /smithsonian/issues03/sep03/object.html   (688 words)

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