Movie Information
Overall Rank: 3344
Average Rating: 2.8/4
# of Ratings: 41
Theatrical Release Date: 05/18/1955
Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 06/21/2011
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Aldrich
Actors: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernandez, Cloris Leachman, Jack Elam
Plot: L.A. private eye Mike Hammer picks up a female hitchhiker only to become involved in a twisted plot after she is killed for information. It could mean a big payday, if he can figure out the mystery and survive to use it. -- Chris Kavan
Quick Movie Reviews
Rating of
3/4
Indyfreak - wrote on 11/27/2020
Classic film noir where Ralph Meeker plays a tough-as-nails private eye named Mike Hammer. The plot sounds like a typical detective story with a complicated plot and nasty characters set within a seedy criminal underworld lurking below the service of Los Angeles. But as Hammer dives deeper into the mystery, not everything is what it seems. And there's one helluva genre turn that the movie takes in its second half that still pays off today.
Rating of
3.5/4
Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 11/05/2019
"Kiss Me Deadly" is a film noir like few others. It was a lower budget film with a signature style, had some truly sinister characters who do some very heinous things, and ends on a climactic scene that feels straight out of "The Twilight Zone."
Rating of
2.5/4
Chris Kavan - wrote on 10/07/2012
Although I think they try too hard to shoe-horn in the whole Cold War/nuclear angle, but I love Ralph Meeker's dark anti-hero depiction of Mike Hammer - and the dames ain't half-bad either - as noir, it only half-way works for me, but it's worth watching just for a different take on an iconic character.
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