Kiss Me Deadly
| Kiss Me Deadly | |
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| Directed by | Robert Aldrich |
| Produced by | Robert Aldrich |
| Written by | Story: Mickey Spillane Screenplay: A. I. Bezzerides |
| Starring | Ralph Meeker Albert Dekker Paul Stewart Cloris Leachman |
| Cinematography | Ernest Laszlo |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) | May 18, 1955 |
| Running time | 106 minutes USA: 104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $410,000 (est.) |
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Kiss Me Deadly (1955) is a film noir drama produced and directed by Robert Aldrich starring Ralph Meeker. The screenplay was written by A.I. Bezzerides, based on the Mickey Spillane Mike Hammer mystery novel Kiss Me, Deadly. Spillane ordered Signet Books to pulp 50,000 copies of the book because they left the comma out.
Kiss Me Deadly is considered a classic of the noir genre. References (usually to the glowing briefcase) appear in such diverse films as Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Alex Cox's Repo Man (1984), Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994), David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997) and Richard Kelly's Southland Tales (2007).
The film grossed $726,000 in the States and a total of $226,000 overseas.
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