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Kiss Me Deadly

Cast

Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernández View All


Crew

Robert Aldrich (Director), A.I. Bezzerides (Screenplay) View All

Release: Apr. 28th, 1955
Runtime: 1 hour, 46 minutes
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.
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Citizen Rules
If Sunset Blvd or The Sweet Smell of Success was a rock band, they'd be a polished band that had been making music long enough to get every last note perfect...But Kiss Me Deadly is like a garage band, raw, ballsy and with lots of off notes.
mark f
In fact, the conclusion of this film is probably the main reason to watch it, although you will certainly be scratching your head long before that, but discussing what the ending means to all the characters is probably the most-fun-and-entertaining thing to do after watching this Looney Tune of a fl....
PHOENIX74
It's not hard to speak in mechanic Nick's (Nick Dennis) vernacular when talking about Kiss Me Deadly - one hell of a gritty, dark, nasty film noir masterpiece directed by Robert Aldrich and twisted into shape using Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer novel.


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