
A frightened woman is running barefoot on a highway, trying desperately to flag a car. After several cars pass her by, the woman sees another car approaching, and to make sure either the car stops, or she's killed, she stands in the path of the oncoming car. Private Investigator Mike Hammer is at the wheel, and after almost hitting the woman, he tells her to get in. The woman's name is Christina Bailey. She is obviously on the run, being barefoot and wearing nothing but a tre... (Full plot summary below)
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A frightened woman is running barefoot on a highway, trying desperately to flag a car. After several cars pass her by, the woman sees another car approaching, and to make sure either the car stops, or she's killed, she stands in the path of the oncoming car. Private Investigator Mike Hammer is at the wheel, and after almost hitting the woman, he tells her to get in. The woman's name is Christina Bailey. She is obviously on the run, being barefoot and wearing nothing but a trench coat, and the scent of fear. Whoever was after her eventually catches up with them. Christina has information they want, but dies while being questioned. The killers fake an accident by pushing Hammer's car off the road, but he survives, waking up in hospital three days later. As Mike starts to investigate Christina's death, he's told by the police to stay out of it, but the hard-nosed private investigator proceeds anyway. Little did he know that Christina's secret would lead to death and destruction.
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| New YorkerRichard BrodyThe actors' idiosyncratic voices, wrapped around such chrome-plated poetry as "the great whatsit" and "va-va-voom," are as hauntingly musical as Aldrich's images. |
| The New York Review of BooksGeoffrey O'BrienMickey Spillane's Mike Hammer represents the deformed endproduct of a thousand 1940s tough-guy movies, transformed by now into a leisure-oriented 1950s man more interested in his hi-fi and his sports car than in heroics. |
| MSN.comSean Axmaker... delivers a pulp punch while it savagely satirizes the entire hardboiled mythos with its bare-knuckle brutality, flights of purple prose dialogue and he-man chauvinism ... |
| MovieMartyr.comJeremy HeilmanIt's a B-picture. Still, no amount of badly post-synchronized dialogue can mask the technical and aesthetic prowess that Aldrich shows here. |
| Tim Dirks' The Greatest FilmsTim DirksKiss Me Deadly (1955) is the definitive, apocalyptic, nihilistic, science-fiction film noir of all time. The film's 50's Los Angeles hero |
| Movie MetropolisChristopher LongKiss Me Deadly was so far out there that it is usually viewed as an end point to the classic film noir cycle. |
| Movie BoeufDavid N. ButterworthAs volatile and disturbing today as it was some 50 years ago, "Kiss Me Deadly" consistently surprises with its uncompromising content. |
| Scene-Stealers.comEric MelinThe plot of the book is jettisoned for something altogether more terrifying and mysterious: Possession of a box that glows from within every time it is opened, however briefly. If that sounds like Pulp Fiction, well, it is, only 40 years earlier. |
| Nitrate OnlineDan LybargerIntriguing cold war thriller. Meeker was born to play Mike Hammer. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzBest exemplifies a curious cross between "art" and pulp fiction. |