Kiss Me Deadly
Robert Aldrich / US, 1955 / 106 min.
Ralph Meeker saunters around rainy, night-time Los Angeles as merciless private eye Mike Hammer, on the trail of some murderers. Alongside The Third Man, The Big Sleep and Touch of Evil, Kiss Me Deadly is undoubtedly one of film noir’s classics.
“What is film noir?,” filmmaker Martin Koolhoven asked himself for a special on the theme. “Film noir is a woman without a past and a man without a future,” was his concise answer. But what if the woman proves to have a history after all? One that even threatens to overwhelm hard-boiled detective Mike Hammer?
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Director
Robert Aldrich
Production year
1955
Country
US
Original title
Kiss Me Deadly
Length
106 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
NONE
Format
DCP
Part of
Film Noir
Rain-drenched streets, curls of cigarette smoke, and men with a dark past. An inescapable fate and a femme fatale, sly and sexually independent. This summer Eye is presenting an extended programme of classic film noir, featuring masterpieces such as The Third Man and In a Lonely Place starring Humphrey Bogart. With vintage 35mm prints and newly restored works.
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