MURDER BY CONTRACT 1958 (TUBI)

Here is another great film noir crime drama on TUBI.

This shot in 7 days wonder should be much better known than it is.

Vince Edwards stars as Claude, a young man who wants to be a contract killer. He meets Mr. Moon (Michael Granger) who decides to hire him out to do several jobs.

Claude carries out the jobs perfectly and then he is told by someone higher up to kill Moon, which he does without batting an eye. After this is carried out he is now hired for a big job.

He is given 10 days to kill a woman who is the ex-wife of a mobster and she is going to be the star witness at the trial. Two men, Marc (Phillip Pine) and George (Herschel Bernardi) travel with Claude when he arrives in California for the kill.

Claude has no feelings for anyone and when he discovers that his target is a woman that bothers him. He demands more pay for the kill as he believes women are nothing but trouble anyway.

After much preperation the plan takes off, but the attempt fails. Claude devises another plan and he simply shoots the woman when she opens her front door.

All is well until it's discovered that the woman who was killed was a policewoman. Yep, this little gem is full of plot twists and turns with many of them blindsiding the viewer.

The somewhat haunting music score is by Perry Botkin and it works very well indeed. I cannot recommend this movie enough. You simply have to see it.

The rest of the cast includes Gloria Victor, Caprice Toriel, Kathy Browne, Steven Ritch and Janet Brandt.