Kiss Me Deadly is both a wicked deconstruction of film noir and an exemplary specimen of the form. This private detective is dumber than a box of rocks. The women are cheap and nasty. The villains ...

Revenge has been a consistent theme across the history of cinema, with film noirs being the perfect vehicles for stories of ...

“Kiss Me Deadly” is considered a “seminal film noir,” said Alan K. Rode, an expert in film noir, the black-and-white shadowy films that examine the underbelly of society.

Kiss Me Deadly remains the greatest hardboiled apocalyptic sci-fi noir ever. ... More on Film Noir. Books The Art Of Hammer book review November 9, 2010 | By Phil Beresford. Movies ...

Ralph Meeker was a tough guy who had some tough luck in Hollywood. Meeker won accolades for his performance in the 1953 Broadway production of Picnic, but when it came time for the movie, William ...

Author, novelist, and film noir aficionado Eddie Muller joins Larry Mantle to talk about his stunning new book, The Art of Noir: ... Double Indemnity and Kiss Me Deadly, ...

Deadline’s 50 Classic Noir Film Gallery: ... KISS ME DEADLY, 1955. Image Credit: Everett Collection Dir. starring, Gaby Rodgers, Ralph Meeker and Paul Stewart. THE KILLING, 1956.

Released in 1955, Kiss Me Deadly is truly marvelous within its anarchic narrative as well as in its use of cutting edge film techniques. The film is very loosely based off the book of the same ...

Kiss Me Deadly begins tough, funny, and utterly original, a film noir for an age of nuclear paranoia. And it never lets up until a rightfully iconic ending ...

Kiss Me Deadly Puckers Up Film-noir touched upon by the Criterion Collection. The Criterion Collection has got the Cold War fever throughout the heat of the summer, with a small handful of Cold ...

“KISS ME DEADLY: THE CRITERION COLLECTION” Blu-ray widescreen and DVD widescreen, 1955, unrated, violence, including implied torture Best extra: “Mike Hammer’s Mickey Spilla… ...