CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Leofwine_draca SHOOT TO KILL is a low budget film noir with some thriller aspects, including a fun night-time car chase, some bits of characters being stalked through dark streets, and character suspense. The story starts with a criminal being sentenced to prison but blaming the district attorney for framing him. Shortly afterwards the DA falls for a woman who may have ulterior motives, while a crusading reporter also gets mixed up in the story. Truth be told this is a cheap little affair with few surprises in store, but it's short and to the point and the story just about hangs together.

wes-connors We open the film with a high-speed chase. Police are after a car containing attractive brunette Luana "Susan" Walters (as Marian Langdon), district attorney husband Edmond MacDonald (as Lawrence "Larry" Dale), and convicted gangster Douglas Blackley aka Robert Kent (as "Dixie" Logan aka Judge Joel Conroy). The car crashes, with only Ms. Walters surviving. In a hospital bed flashback, she tells her story to reporter Russell Wade (as George "Mitch" Mitchell), who is prone to his own flashbacks...From once scene to the next, the four principle performers do not always demonstrate a clear understanding of where they're going. However, with all the cross and double crossing going on, focused characterization makes "Shoot to Kill" a task. In hindsight, the story doesn't add up too well. Otherwise, it's sometimes stylishly directed and photographed by William Berke and Benjamin Kline. Darrell Calker, with Gene Rodgers contributing some fine on-screen piano work, nicely makes the music score.***** Shoot to Kill (3/15/47) William Berke ~ Luana Walters, Russell Wade, Edmund MacDonald, Robert Kent

Michael O'Keefe SHOOT TO KILL is a nice paced crime drama that has Douglas Blackley playing a known gangster Dixie Logan who is framed by District Attorney Larry Dale(Edmund MacDonald). Logan's secret wife Marian Langdon(Susan Walters)takes a job assisting Dale in order to dig up proof corruption in the office and that Logan was framed. Helping Marian is ace reporter George Mitchell(Russell Wade)and not knowing her real situation falls in love with her. The story is being told by the pretty DA's assistant from her deathbed. Photography is top shelf and story does hold some suspense. A brief highlight is piano player Gene Rodgers playing the tunes "Ballad of the Bayou" and "Rajah's Blues". Supporting players include: Charles Trowbridge, Joe Devlin, Vince Barnett and Frank O'Connor.NOTE: Later Blackley changed his name to Robert Kent and Walters became Luana Walters.

Hitchcoc Better than most of the low budget thrillers, this is fun because it involves a series of flashbacks which explain why a woman has been badly injured due to her connection with a corrupt district attorney. The story is pretty well put forward with a minimum of stereotyping. The woman is really a fireball, putting herself in harm's way over and over. It's odd she survived as long as she did. Most of the characters are bad guys with their own agendas. There is some double crossing and an effort to expose a frame-up. I felt the ending was pretty well done, which isn't always the case in this genre. The acting is quite good because the bad guys are presented as human beings, with human failings and emotions. Not that they aren't pretty evil and pretty cold. It's worth a look.