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Winter Kill is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Jud Taylor released in USA on 15 april 1974 with Andy Griffith

Winter Kill (1974)

Winter Kill
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Released in USA 15 april 1974
Length 1h34
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Thriller
Rating69% 3.48293.48293.48293.48293.4829

For the album by heavy metal band Slauter Xstroyes, see Winter Kill (Album)

Winter Kill is a 1974 U.S. made-for-TV movie directed by Jud Taylor and written by John Michael Hayes and David Karp. It stars Andy Griffith as Sam McNeill, the sheriff in a small resort town in the mountains of northern California. The film is mystery-suspense drama about McNeill's attempts to solve a string of local serial killings linked by messages left at the scenes of the crimes. Nick Nolte played the role of Dave Michaels.

The movie (which aired on April 15, 1974 as an ABC Movie of the Week) was intended as a series pilot. When it failed to sell, the main character was renamed and used as the lead character for the short-lived 1975 series Adams of Eagle Lake, also starring Andy Griffith.

The film was released on DVD by Warner Bros. in 2009 along with Griffith's 1977 TV movie Deadly Game, making it one of the few of Griffith's TV movies from the 1970s to have an official DVD release.

Actors

Andy Griffith

(Sheriff Sam McNeill)
John Larch

(Dr. Bill Hammond)
Tim O'Connor
Lawrence Pressman

(Peter Lockhard)
Eugene Roche

(Mayor Clinton Bickford)
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