![]() ![]() He survives and becomes determined to find out who did this and why. She is tortured, killed and driven off the edge of a cliff alongside an unconscious Hammer in his car. Soon after, her pursuers catch up with the both of them. Private detective Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) almost runs her over then offers her a lift after seeing she’s in trouble. Kiss Me Deadly opens in thrilling fashion with a woman (Cloris Leachman) dressed in only a trench coat running down a road at night. With Criterion releasing Kiss Me Deadly on Blu-Ray here in the UK, I was presented with a chance to revisit my old favourite though so I couldn’t resist checking to see whether it lived up to my fond memory and would once again eclipse the other film noirs I watched following it. ![]() So I’ve been collecting a new handful of favourites to compare against. ![]() In more recent years I’ve been watching a lot more noir though and the distance from my last viewing of Kiss Me Deadly has grown ever greater. Whenever I watched any subsequent films from the genre I couldn’t help but compare them to it so I often came out a tad disappointed. Kiss Me Deadly was one of the first classic film noirs I watched and it blew me away with its hard edge and apocalyptic finale. ![]() Starring: Ralph Meeker, Maxine Cooper, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernandez, Wesley Addy, Gaby Rodgers, Nick Dennis, Strother Martin ![]()
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