{"id":42745,"date":"2026-10-01T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42745"},"modified":"2026-10-01T09:47:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T13:47:33","slug":"kiss-me-deadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42745","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Kiss Me Deadly&#8221; (1955) directed by Robert Aldrich; starring Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart and Juano Hernandez \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z100126review_kissmedeadly.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"746\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Kiss Me Deadly <\/i>(1955)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Robert Aldrich<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>A.I. Bezzerides, Robert Aldrich <\/strong>(uncredited)<strong>; <\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/link.amazon\/B0j5XfSuo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KISS ME DEADLY<\/a> by <strong>Mickey Spillane<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernandez, Marjorie Bennett, Strother Martin <\/strong>and<strong> Jack Elam<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Blood red kisses! White hot thrills! Mickey Spillane&#8217;s latest H-bomb!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Driving home late one evening, Mike Hammer nearly runs over a woman in the middle of the road.\u00a0 She&#8217;s barefoot and wearing just a trenchcoat.\u00a0 Hammer stops.\u00a0 The woman is running from someone but doesn&#8217;t say who.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hammer gives her a lift, but soon thugs catch up to them.\u00a0 The last thing Hammer hears is the woman&#8217;s scream.\u00a0 When he wakes up, he&#8217;s in the hospital.\u00a0 The goons killed the woman, then threw her and Hammer&#8217;s unconscious body in the car before pushing it over the cliff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hammer believes whatever the woman was involved in was &#8220;something big&#8221;.\u00a0 Plus he wants payback.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hammer&#8217;s going to get answers he couldn&#8217;t have imagined and find himself the target of a crime syndicate after the result of a top secret government experiment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although based on Mickey Spillane&#8217;s novel of the same name, the film makes changes to Hammer as well as the plot.\u00a0 In the film, Hammer is a sleazy LA PI who never uses a gun; instead of a fearless NY private eye.\u00a0 \u00a0In the film, Hammer finds himself in international intrigue with a suitcase containing stolen atomic material.\u00a0 In the book, Hammer is up against the Mafia after a suitcase of heroin.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kiss Me Deadly<\/em> features Cloris Leachman&#8217;s first theatrical film role.<\/p>\n<p>The haunting ending will stay with you long after the film ends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>Kiss Me Deadly <\/i>(1955)<\/strong> rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z100126review_kissmedeadly2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiss Me Deadly (1955) Director: Robert Aldrich Screenplay: A.I. 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