Directed by:
Robert AldrichScreenplay:
A.I. BezzeridesCinematography:
Ernest LaszloComposer:
Frank De VolCast:
Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernandez, Wesley Addy, Marian Carr, Marjorie Bennett, Mort Marshall, Cloris Leachman, Robert Cornthwaite (more)Plots(1)
In this atomic adaptation of Mickey Spillane’s novel, directed by Robert Aldrich, the good manners of the 1950s are blown to smithereens. Ralph Meeker stars as snarling private dick Mike Hammer, whose decision one dark, lonely night to pick up a hitchhiking woman sends him down some terrifying byways. Brazen and bleak, Kiss Me Deadly is a film noir masterpiece as well as an essential piece of cold war paranoia, and it features as nervy an ending as has ever been seen in American cinema. (Criterion)
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Fortunio Bonanova
Spain
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Double Indemnity (1944)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Jesslyn Fax
Canada
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North by Northwest (1959)
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Paul Richards
USA
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Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
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Charles Lane
USA
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Jack Lambert
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John George
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The Killing (1956)
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Maxine Cooper
USA
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Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
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James Mccallion
UK
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
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Leonard Mudie
UK
Best movies:
Limelight (1952)
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Gaby Rodgers
German Empire
Best movies:
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)