979 (111). Blast of Silence (1961, Allen Baron)

Screened July TSPDT rank #965  IMDb Wiki An early landmark in New York City’s storied history of low-budget indie filmmaking,  Blast of Silence may be most famous for its wall-to-wall second person voiceover narration (”You can depend on yourself, no one else. You learned the hard way… When people look at you, Baby Boy Frankie Bono, they see death.” ). It’s a neat trick that sets an otherwise mundane hitman plot over a dense interior landscape of self-loathing, paranoia and motivati