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Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
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Written by:
GenreThriller / Film-Noir / Crime
SynopsisA doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit."
Filmed inUSA
Runtime106 min / USA:104 min (original version)
Average Rating![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (4.0 on 5) |
Casting:
| Ralph Meeker | Mike Hammer | |
| Albert Dekker | Dr GE Soberin | |
| Paul Stewart | Carl Evello | |
| Juano Hernandez | Eddie Yeager | |
| Wesley Addy | Lt Pat Murphy | |
| Marian Carr | Friday | |
| Marjorie Bennett | Manager | |
| Maxine Cooper | Velda | |
| Fortunio Bonanova | Carmen Trivago | |
| Cloris Leachman | Christina Bailey | |
| Gaby Rodgers | Lily Carver | |
| Robert Cornthwaite | FBI agent | |
| Nick Dennis | Nick | |
| Jack Lambert | Sugar Smallhouse | |
| Jack Elam | Charlie Max |




A fine low-budget thriller with great noir visual style. If only professional critics would stop talking about nuclear metaphors



The Search for the "Great Whatsit"



The Search for the "Great Whatsit"




















