File:Murder by Contract (1958) - Bulova Wrist Alarm scene.jpg

Summary

Description: Murder by Contract (1958) - Vince Edwards as contract killer Claude, on a desert stakeout, raising binoculars to surveil his target in bright daylight. His right arm is bent sharply upward to hold the binoculars, and a round-cased wristwatch with a light-toned dial/bezel is clearly visible on his wrist at the shirt/jacket cuff, sharply in focus in this well-lit exterior shot. His face is largely covered by the binoculars themselves (only forehead, hair, and jaw are visible, eyes obscured), so identity is established by body/arm continuity within this single unbroken shot (head, torso, and the watch-bearing arm are all part of one continuous figure) plus his position as the central, dark-haired lead of the trio, consistent with his hairstyle and build in other confirmed face-forward frames from the same FILMGrab gallery for this film (e.g., frames 03, 06, 07, 11, 24). Flanking him are his two mob-connected handlers (one bespectacled in a fedora, one open-collared), part of the same surveillance sequence. Source URL: https://film-grab.com/wp-content/uploads/photo-gallery/Murder_By_Contract_26.jpg Source publisher: Murder by Contract (1958, Columbia Pictures / Orbit Productions), frame republished by FILMGrab (film-grab.com) Retrieved: 2026-08-11 License or editorial purpose: Copyrighted film still used for identification and commentary on the watch worn in the scene (editorial fair use). Modifications: None (full original frame as hosted by FILMGrab; no letterbox bars present to remove — row-by-row pixel sampling at top and bottom edges showed no near-zero-mean/low-std uniform bands; no crop, no format conversion). Related page: Murder by Contract (1958)