May 1st
Kiss Me Deadly**
(US 1955)
A small-time Los Angeles detective stumbles onto a sinister plot, with literally explosive results.
One of the best adaptations of Mickey Spillane's slightly thuggish detective Mike Hammer, a cult item for its paranoid atmosphere with a deliberately unsettling plot reflecting the atomic menace of the time, and some quirky touches (such as credits sloping upwards), that brought this director's name to the major attention of Hollywood.
Written by: A.I. Bezzirides, from the novel by Mickey Spillane.
Producer/Director: Robert Aldrich.
Starring: Ralph Meeker, Maxine Cooper, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Gaby Rodgers, Wesley Addy, Juano Hernandez, Cloris Leachman.
Photography: Ernest Laszlo.
Music: Frank DeVol.
KISS ME DEADLY. Gaby Rodgers opens the proverbial Pandora's Box. This image was famous enough for Tarantino to reference it in Pulp Fiction.
Kiss Me Deadly**
(US 1955)
A small-time Los Angeles detective stumbles onto a sinister plot, with literally explosive results.
One of the best adaptations of Mickey Spillane's slightly thuggish detective Mike Hammer, a cult item for its paranoid atmosphere with a deliberately unsettling plot reflecting the atomic menace of the time, and some quirky touches (such as credits sloping upwards), that brought this director's name to the major attention of Hollywood.
Written by: A.I. Bezzirides, from the novel by Mickey Spillane.
Producer/Director: Robert Aldrich.
Starring: Ralph Meeker, Maxine Cooper, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Gaby Rodgers, Wesley Addy, Juano Hernandez, Cloris Leachman.
Photography: Ernest Laszlo.
Music: Frank DeVol.
KISS ME DEADLY. Gaby Rodgers opens the proverbial Pandora's Box. This image was famous enough for Tarantino to reference it in Pulp Fiction.
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