Film, Video Web Page Kiss me deadly

Title

• Kiss me deadly

Summary

• "Tough L.A. private eye Mike Hammer gives a ride to Christina, a frightened young woman he finds running along the road one night. His car is run off the road by unseen thugs. Hammer is knocked out and Christina is tortured in an unsuccessful attempt to get information from her. They are put back into Hammer's car which then is forced off a cliff. Hammer wakes up in the hospital. Velda, his trusty secretary, informs him that Christina is dead. Pat, Mike's policeman friend, tells him to stay off the case, but Mike thinks it might be a big story--meaning big money for him--because the FBI is interested. He, Velda, and Nick, his garage mechanic friend, start investigating in hopes of finding out why Christina was killed"--Internet movie database.

Names

• Aldrich, Robert, 1918-1983, direction, production.
• Bezzerides, A. I. (Albert Isaac), 1908-2007, writing.
• Laszlo, Ernest, camera.
• Luciano, Michael, editing.
• DeVol, Frank, music.
• Meeker, Ralph, 1920-1988, cast.
• Dekker, Albert, 1905-1968, cast.
• Stewart, Paul, 1908-1986, cast.
• Hernandez, Juano, cast.
• Cooper, Maxine, cast.
• Addy, Wesley, cast.
• Leachman, Cloris, cast.
• Parklane Pictures, Inc.
• MGM Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

• [United States : s.n., 1997]

Headings

• -  Hammer, Mike--(Fictitious character)--Drama
• -  Private investigators--California--Los Angeles--Drama
• -  Espionage--Drama
• -  Murder--Drama
• -  Radioactive substances--Drama

Genre

• Crime films
• Film noir
• Detective and mystery films
• Feature films
• Fiction films

Notes

• -  Based on the novel by Mickey Spillane.
• -  Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernandez, Maxine Cooper, Wesley Addy, Cloris Leachman, Marian Carr, Marjorie Bennett, Fortunio Bonanova, Mady Comfort, Robert Cornthwaite, Strother Martin, Jack Elam.
• -  Cinematography by Ernest Laszlo ; editor, Mike Luciano ; music composed and conducted by Frank DeVol.
• -  The restored version includes the complete ending from director Robert Aldrich's own personal print, donated to the Director's Guild of America after his death. In this restoration, the main characters, Mike and Velda, do not die in the end as in the 1955 version. The original ending adds over 80 seconds to the film. The film with the original ending was recovered by editor Glenn Erickson with help from author Alain Silver.
• -  Originally released theatrically in 1955 by United Artists.
• -  This film was selected for the National Film Registry.
• -  LC also holds a viewing print in the Copyright Collection. Films have not been compared.
• -  Partially viewed for credits.
• -  Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1950-1959, p. 176; Variety film reviews, v. 9, April 20, 1955; Internet movie database WWW site, viewed February 29, 2016; The film noir of the the week WWW site, February 29, 2016 ("The restoration of Kiss me Deadly" by Glenn Erickson); Los Angeles times, August 12, 1997, viewed online February 29, 2016 (Cult classic mystery : a new video release of 'Kiss Me Deadly' includes the now-famous lost footage).

Medium

• theatrical projection print 11 film reels of 11 on 6 (ca. 105 min., ca. 9,450 ft.) : sd., b&w ; 35 mm.

Call Number/Physical Location

• FGF 1094-1099 (theatrical projection print)

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2001643835

Online Format

• web page
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2001643835

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