Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.
- Released
- 1955-04-28
- Genres
- Mystery, Thriller, Crime
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Robert Aldrich, A.I. Bezzerides
- TMDB rating
- 7.2/10 from 430 votes
Cast
- Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer
- Albert Dekker as Dr. G.E. Soberin
- Paul Stewart as Carl Evello
- Juano Hernández as Eddie Yeager
- Wesley Addy as Lt. Pat Murphy
- Marian Carr as Friday
- Maxine Cooper as Velda
- Cloris Leachman as Christina Bailey
- Gaby Rodgers as Lily Carver
- Nick Dennis as Nick
- Jack Lambert as Sugar Smallhouse
- Jack Elam as Charlie Max