The gossip around this movie is its own legend. Look at the “trivia” entry for it on the Internet Movie Dababase. It is beloved, studied, parsed by obsessive fans.
“Winter Kills” checks almost every box on the “this might be a cult film” checklist. William Richert, who also made the cult film “A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon,” starring River Phoenix, died just last month (July, 2022). Many of its famous cast members supposedly never got paid, bu t Elizbeth Taylor, stepping out of retirement for a single scene and a single line, made damned sure to get her cash up front.Īnd its director only made two other features in the ensuing 43 years. Myth has it that the Kennedy clan tried to suppress “Winter Kills.” But its unique place in cinema history might be that it’s the only movie to ever go bankrupt in the middle of production. Four years later it came out “restored,” making a little more sense but barely any more box office cents. The movie was chopped up by studio editors and released in New York, and abruptly yanked. He and a later-imprisoned co-producer made their money from marijuana importation, sales and distribution. The film’s co-producer was found murdered, handcuffed to a chair two weeks before the film was released.
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