Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!

Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!
Directed byRomain Gary
Written byRomain Gary
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyEdmond Richard
Edited byRoger Dwyre
Music byBerto Pisano
Memphis Slim
Doris Troy
Production
company
    • Barnabé Productions
    • Dieter Geissler Filmproduktion
    • Este Films
    • Industrie Cinematografiche Artistiche Romane
    • Procinex
Distributed byCocinor (France)
Release dates
  • 10 December 1971 (1971-12-10) (Paris, premiere)[1]
  • 25 January 1972 (1972-01-25) (France)[2]
Country

Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! (French: Police Magnum[4], also released as Kill![2]) is a 1971 action thriller film written and directed by Romain Gary,[1] and starring Stephen Boyd, Jean Seberg, James Mason and Curd Jürgens.[5]

Plot

Stranded miles from civilizations in remote Afghanistan, Emily Hamilton, the young wife of a high-ranking Interpol official, owes her survival to the intervention of Brad Killian, a man willing to do anything to wipe out a drug trafficking gang. A full-blown war ensues, drawing Emily into a world of violence and corruption that will force her to realize her husband is not the incorruptible policeman he seemed to be.

Cast

Reception

Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called it "totally ludicrous".[6]

The French website SensCritique called it "part New Wave art film, part B-movie. Romain Gary attempted the impossible, failing completely by not appealing to either of the two audiences who are fans of either genre. The film is talky and disjointed. By the tenth minute, you no longer feel any empathy for the characters, and it's difficult to discern any real stakes in the plot. As for the ending, it feels like it came straight out of a parody or a blooper reel."[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Romain Gary à propos du film "Kill !" | INA (in French). Retrieved 2026-08-22 – via www.ina.fr.
  2. 1 2 "Kill". Visas et Classification | CNC (in French). Retrieved 2026-08-22.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Kill - Fiche Film - La Cinémathèque française". cinema.encyclopedie.films.bifi.fr. Retrieved 2026-08-22.
  4. 1 2 SensCritique. "Nouvelle vague cinéma bis par Dagrey_Le-feu-follet". SensCritique (in French). Retrieved 2026-08-22.
  5. ↑ " Kill Kill Kill ! ", de Romain Gary Le Monde; Paris [Paris]21 Apr 2013: 8.
  6. ↑ Thomas, Kevin (23 February 1973). "Films deal with Heroin, VD". The Los Angeles Times. p. IV-22 – via Newspapers.com.


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