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You know what I do to squealers? I let 'em have it in the belly, so they can roll around for a long time thinkin' it over.
~ Tommy Udo questioning Mrs. Rizzo for the location of her son before murdering her.

Thomas "Tommy" Udo​​ is the main antagonist in the 1947 crime film Kiss of Death. In the film, Tommy Udo is a psychopathic gangster who works as a hitman for the criminal underworld.

He was portrayed by the late Richard Widmark, who also portrayed Lanfranco Cassetti in the 1974 film adaption of Murder on the Orient Express.

Biography[]

Nothing is known on Tom Udo's early life before joining the mob. What is known is that he worked as both a drug dealer, and an occasional hitman. It's implied that during an unknown point in time, Udo became addicted to and a regular user of the very drugs that he was selling which might have further unhinged the already unstable man. Udo slowly acquired a reputation in the underworld as a violent, sadistic, criminal known for his habit of constantly giggling to himself.

Udo is however revealed himself to be a cruel and misogynistic killer, as he pushes a crippled Rizzo down a staircase in her flat, killing her. He arranges to meet up with Nick after watching a boxing match with his wife. Tommy's wife asks Nick in the restaurant if she has any familiarity with him. Much to Tommy's disgrace, he harasses her with his bigoted cruelty, and soon dismisses her from the table, beguiling with Nick at the same time. Nick and Tommy discuss their crimes and friendship together, only into leading Nick finding Udo to be without morals or standards.

Nick realizes that New York is not a safe place for Nettie and his children to live in. He sets up a holiday for them and allows them to take the train and leave New York. Nick swears an oath that he will come after them when the conflict against Udo is over.

Tommy and his bodyguards follow the trial of Nick to the New York restaurant, but Nick manages hides from them before they breach the place and neutralize him. Tommy inadvertently proceeds with the murder scheme, by sitting by a lonely table, waiting for a sign of his adversary. Nick appears, however, outside the building when Tommy and his men determined to leave. They open fire on Nick while Tommy giggles, his final laughter. Nick had however set up a trap for the felons with the police arriving and seizing them.

Refusing to be vanquished, Udo drives off as quickly as possible. He fails as he crashes with another police car and his two men are killed. Arguably jumping out of the car and running away, without ammo, he is shot and wounded in action, and later being imprisoned.

Trivia[]

  • Widmark, a big fan of Batman comics, modeled his performance as Udo after The Joker.
  • The film's original ending had Udo shooting Nick dead, but it was deemed too depressing, so narration describing Nick's survival was added to the end of the film.
  • In Stephen King's novel The Green Mile, protagonist Paul Edgecomb compares main antagonist William Wharton to Udo.

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