Licensed to Kill
A riveting journey into the minds of men whose contempt for homosexuals led them to murder. Attacked in 1977 by gay bashers on the streets of San Francisco, filmmaker Arthur Dong confronts murderers of gay men face-to-face in his film. He asks them directly: “Why did you do it?”
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Cast
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Donald Aldrich
Self - Killer
Corey Burley
Self - Killer
Miriam Cutler
Allan Bérubé
Raymond Childs
Self - Killer
Robert Shepard
Thomas G. Miller
William Cross
Self - Killer
Arthur Dong
Self (voice)
Kenneth French
Self - Killer
Also in
Pals
We're Fighting Back
Jay Johnson
Self - Killer
Also in
The Underground Comedy Movie
Jeffrey Swinford
Self - Killer
Arthur Dong Director · Miriam Cutler Composer Robert Shepard Cinematographer
United States release October 1, 2021 · Produced in United States
Production
DeepFocus Productions Inc.
Production
United States
Produced in
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · January 16, 1997
Premiere · Source: IMDB (Sundance Film Festival)
United States · October 1, 2021
Digital · The Criterion Channel
United States
June 23, 1998 · TV · PBS
Finland
October 26, 1997 · Turku Pervoplanet Film Festival
Taiwan
September 29, 2012 · CNEX Documentary Film Festival
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