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Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
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Kiss Me Deadly starts off with a bang--a young woman (Cloris Leachman) in bare feet and a trench coat runs along a highway, frantically trying to flag down help. In desperation, she finally throws herself into traffic, and the car she stops belongs to detective Mike Hammer. The pace never lets up--we're not even 15 minutes into the movie and there's already been a murder, a mysterious letter, an attempt to kill Hammer, and, of course, a warning to just stay out of it. Hammer, tired of lowlife divorce cases, smells something big and can't let it go. The film is exciting, about as dark as a noir can get, and full of skewed camera angles...
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Apocalyptic film noir is what one person used to describe this film. Seems the director (Robert Aldrich) was not crazy about the original story and made some changes that makes the story as real today as it was in the 50s.
Ralph Meeker, who had a long career in films was a virtual unknown at the time he was picked to be...
(complete Kiss Me Deadly review by Movie Addict)
Of course, everyone's familiar with the ominous meaning behind the term - THE MANHATTAN PROJECT. We all know the devastating implications that it had on everyone, and everything, across the entire face of this planet. But, if you're not sure, I'll clue you in. THE MANHATTAN PROJECT was the code name used back in 1942 for...
(complete Kiss Me Deadly review by CowboyJunkie)
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