Kiss Me Deadly
Blood red kisses! White hot thrills! Mickey Spillane’s latest H-bomb!
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Timing:
1:46 (106 min)
7.19/10
356
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6.862/10
2182
2182
7.5/10
24000
24000
Country
Production
Genre
Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Budget
$410 000
Revenue
$726 000
Director
Actors
Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernández, Wesley Addy, Marian Carr, Maxine Cooper, Cloris Leachman, Gaby Rodgers, Nick Dennis
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Operator
Ernest Laszlo
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
Michael Luciano
All team (12)
All team (12)
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- The screenplay was based on Mickey Spillane's novel about detective Mike Hammer (1952). Because the novel dealt with drugs, it was officially deemed unsuitable for filming. To overcome this difficulty, screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides completely transformed the plot, filling it with noir clichés and fears of the atomic age. He came up with the hot "nuclear briefcase" and the apocalyptic finale, and also moved the action from New York to California.
- The girl on the highway and the hero's secretary were played by debutantes.
- Filming took place in Los Angeles, and many of the neighborhoods and establishments that appeared in the film were already slated for demolition. Thus, the film can serve as a guide to the Californian metropolis at the intersection of different eras.
- Before the film's release, Aldrich published an article in the New York Herald Tribune in which he attempted to reassure fans of Mike Hammer, who were alarmed by the careless attitude towards the literary source. The film's road to wide release was a thorny one. Guardians of public morality sent the director a petition demanding more than 30 changes to the film.
- In 1999, the film was added to the National Film Registry.
- The screenplay was based on Mickey Spillane's novel about detective Mike Hammer (1952). However, due to the novel's subject matter involving drugs, it was officially deemed unsuitable for adaptation. To circumvent this difficulty, screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides completely transformed the plot, saturating it with noir tropes and fears of the atomic age. He came up with the hot “nuclear briefcase” and the apocalyptic finale, and also moved the action from New York to California.
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