Allen Baron wears an unidentified watch

Allen Baron raised $2,800 to shoot test footage for Blast of Silence, then scraped together another $18,000 to finish the film. The role of Frank Bono, a hitman who comes to New York at Christmastime to kill a second-string mob boss, was supposed to go to Peter Falk. When Falk got a paying role in Murder, Inc., Baron played the part himself. He also directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Waldo Salt. The Criterion Collection released it on DVD in 2008, which is how most people discovered it.

Bono wears what has been described as a gold watch, though the available image is a wide shot of nighttime Manhattan and the watch is not visible in it. For a hitman in 1961, a gold watch would be a small vanity, the one piece of flash on a man whose job requires him to disappear. The specific make has not been identified.