“Brilliantly characterized down to the smallest roles, directed with baroque ferocity, superbly shot by Ernest Laszlo, it’s a masterpiece of sorts. “A brilliant time capsule of 1950s paranoia.” Eddie Muller, The Art of Noir The opening credits roll in reverse to the sound of a woman’s heavy panting. In this atomic adaptation of Mickey Spillanes novel, directed by Robert Aldrich, the good manners of the 1950s are blown to smithereens.
Aldrichs film was an instant hit among mid-50s French film critics (Andr Bazin. François Truffaut called it “the most original American film since Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai.” Adapted from one of Mickey Spillane’s sex-and-violence-filled Mike Hammer novels, it stars Ralph Meeker as a thuggish private eye bungling his way from brutality to brutality as he investigates why the half-naked hitchhiker he picked up in the film’s nocturnal opening was tortured to death-in front of his own semiconscious eyes! As Hammer stumbles his way into a sinister Cold War conspiracy, Aldrich and cameraman Ernest Laszlo keep things dizzyingly off-kilter with a host of disorienting cinematic devices. EIRIK FRISVOLD HANSSEN / Bad dreams: Kiss Me Deadly and Lost Highway. Director Robert Aldrich Writers Mickey Spillane (novel 'Kiss Me, Deadly') A.I. Kiss Me Deadly, masterfully directed by Robert Aldrich ( What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?), is nuclear-age noir so nasty and nihilistic it’s positively radioactive. A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious 'great whatsit'. Producer Victor Saville made movies out of three hardboiled Mike Hammer novels by Mickey Spillane, but this is the only one, thanks to director. Kiss Me Deadly Lyrics: The Greyhounds rocking out tonight / To maximum rockabilly / When two punks chose to risk the subway / For a tube to Picadilly / And. Robert Gant stars as Jacob Keane, a gay ex-spy who is reluctantly drawn back into the shadowy world of international espionage by his ex-partner. You can feel Hammer's hatred for the many-tentacled creature that the mob is and his determination to chop off the heads of this h Mickey Spillane is one of the best-selling mystery. It was first published in 1952 and, at that time, it was shocking for its violence. “One of the most extraordinary films of the ’50s.” Georges Sadoul, Dictionary of Films Kiss Me, Deadly is his seventh novel overall and his sixth Mike Hammer novel.
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