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Kiss Me Deadly (1955) Movie Reviews
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Reel.com DVD review (Jerry Renshaw)
Story has it that director Robert Aldrich (and screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides) didn't care for the Mickey Spillane novel Kiss Me Deadly, didn't care for the Mike Hammer character, and didn't especially like actor Ralph Meeker, either. The end result was
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San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
KISS ME DEADLY: 1955 film noir. Starring Ralph Meeker and Albert Dekker. Directed by Robert Aldrich. (Not rated. 105 minutes. At the Roxie.) If ``Kiss Me Deadly'' were a brand-new film, it would still be shocking in its mean spirit, its happy brutality
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"Good" Reviews
Jigsaw Lounge (Neil Young) - for 'Tribune' magazine
FIFTY years on, film noir classic Kiss Me, Deadly still hits like a punch in the guts - or perhaps a "low blow" would be more accurate, given the hulking, punch-first-think-later-if-at-all thuggishness of its private-eye protagonist Mike Hammer (Meeker).
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