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Kiss Me Deadly
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NR,1hr 45min
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April 23, 1955
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MGM
Synopsis: Regarded by many critics as the ultimate film noir, and by many more as the finest movie adaptation of a book by Mickey Spillane, Kiss Me Deadly stars Ralph Meeker as Spillane's anti-social private eye Mike Hammer. While driving down a lonely road late one evening, Hammer picks up a beautiful blonde hitchhiker (Cloris Leachman), dressed in nothing but a raincoat. At first, Hammer assumes that the incoherent girl is an escaped lunatic; his mind is changed for him when he and the girl are abducted ... Full Synopsis
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Widely considered the best (if loosest) film adaptation of a Mickey Spillane novel, Robert Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly (1955) features Spillane hero Mike Hammer in the ultimate Cold War paranoia investigation. With macho "bedroom dick" Hammer using any violence necessary, this darkest of 1950s films noirs sends him on a search for the "Great Whatsit," an ominously incandescent box encompassing America's ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Mike Hammer
Dr. Soberin
Carl Evello
Pat Chambers
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MICKEY SPILLANE March 9, 1918 - July 17, 2006 Pulp writer Mickey Spillane wielded prose like a blunt...
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