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The Bloody Brood

Canada/USA 1959
produced by
Julian Roffman for Meridian Films, Key Films
directed by Julian Roffman
starring Jack Betts, Peter Falk, Barbara Lord, Ron Hartmann, Ron Taylor, Robert Christie, Bill Brydon, Michael Zenon, Anne Collins, George Sperdakos, Sammy Sales, Carol Starkman, Kenneth Wickes, Lloyd Jones, William R. Kowalchuk, Betty Anderson
written by Anne Howard Bailey, Ben Kerner, Elwood Ullman, Des Hardman, music by Harry Freedman

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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A group of beatniks doesn't do anything but "rebel" against the establishment all night - which of course means little more than getting drunk, doing drugs, beating bongos, reading weird poetry and making up their own kind of warped philosophy. For many, the party seems to end when they see a hobo die in their favourite dive - but one of them, Nico (Peter Falk), makes an artpiece out of it, à la the ultimate expression of one's self ... which is bollocks of course, but it helps all others come over the sight of death pretty quickly. For most it's just a sign of their shallow nature, but for Nico it goes deeper, and he eventually conspires with his sidekick Francis (Ron Hartmann) to kill somebody. Now Francis is just an idiot who is too easily persuaded to feed a mailboy (William R. Kowalchuk) a ground glass-laced hamburger, but Nico is an actual psychopath. The mailboy dies of course ...

However, the mailboy has a brother, Cliff (Jack Betts), who just can't believe to what degree the police neglects his brother's death, and thus he takes up investigations on his own, and it doesn't take him long to track Nico down. However, Nico is by far not the anti-establishment beatnik he pretends to be, he has contacts to drugrunners and the mob, so he tries to mobilize his contacts to get rid of Cliff ... but a girl from his gang (Barbara Lord) has taken a liking in Cliff and gives him quite a few good clues that make Cliff more determined than ever ... and yet, he ultimately walks into a death trap - that however turns on Nico when two small fry drugpushers he wanted to get rid of (Bill Brydon, Michael Zenon) survive an assassination attempt and now turn on the man who ordered it - with lethal consequences.

 

Not a great film but a nice low budget thriller that uses the beatnik atmosphere and ideology to its advantage rather than just making it a cool backdrop, and it's very immoral beginning is rather unusual for a movie of its ilk (we're actually not even introduced to the hero until a quarter of an hour or so into the movie), and very appealing at that. The real attraction of this film though is Peter Falk in a very early movie role, playing his ruthless psychopath with haunting precision - and for that alone, the movie (which has its weaknesses like the very traditional build-up and resolution after the strong beginning) is almost a must-see!

 

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