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KISS ME DEADLY Robert Aldrich ***** 5/5 One of the greatest examples of film noir, this early feature by Dirty Dozen director Robert Aldrich made him a name in arty circles (the critics of the French magazine Cahiers du Cinéma
loved him and the film) and a formidable presence in cinema. He took a
piece of Mickey Spillane “pulp” fiction and turned it into an
astonishing fable, with Pandora's Box transformed into a nuclear
furnace. The look is off-the-wall stylish and the tension builds to a
climax that is near-apocalyptic. Everything is on the side of the
unexpected from the opening credits to the fact that Spillane's
detective Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) is a flawed antihero who, after
picking up a girl on the run, finds himself in over his head in events
beyond his control. Albert Dekker is a classily obnoxious villain, but
it's the women you have to watch. As the title suggests, their embrace
is lethal.
US B/W 100 mins(1955) |
