Winter Kills
Surviving half brother of a beloved President assassinated in 1960, Nick Kegan (Jeff Bridges) is startled when the family odd-job operative Keifitz (Richard Boone) brings him a man dying from an oil rig accident, Arthur Fletcher (Joe Spinell) who confesses to having been the second shooter in the long-ago killing. Determined to unearth the truth, Nick is sent on a wild Odyssey across America by his domineering tycoon father, Pa Kegan (John Huston), a crazy womanizer and weaver of intricate conspiracies. Not only do many of those Nick contacts end up mysteriously dead within hours, but he finds out that some people very close to him, including Yvette Malone, the classy magazine editor he wants to marry (Belinda Bauer), aren't who he thinks they are. Someone is going to a lot of trouble to feed Nick gross mis-information, but who? Maniac millionaire Joe Diamond (Sterling Hayden)? Imprisoned Mafia chief Frank Mayo (Tomas Milian)? Pa Kegan himself? Or how about Pa's computer spy, John Cerruti (Anthony Perkins)?
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Supplements
- Audio commentary with writer/director William Richert
- "Who Killed Winter Kills?" featurette
- Reunion with William Richert and Jeff Bridges
- "Star Stories with William Richert"
- Still galleries
- Theatrical trailer
- Original screenplay (PDF)