Kiss Me Deadly

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film film noir thriller film

Kiss Me Deadly is a 1955 American film noir thriller directed by Robert Aldrich, renowned for its hard-boiled style and influential, apocalyptic ending.

Aliases (1)

Kiss Me, Deadly ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	film → film noir → thriller film →
basedOn	Kiss Me, Deadly → novel by Mickey Spillane →
character	Christina Bailey → Mike Hammer → Velda →
cinematographyBy	Ernest Laszlo →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
director	Robert Aldrich →
distributedBy	United Artists →
editedBy	Michael Luciano →
filmSeries	Mike Hammer films →
genre	crime film → film noir → thriller film →
includedIn	United States National Film Registry →
influenced	French New Wave filmmakers → subsequent neo-noir films →
leadCharacter	Mike Hammer →
leadCharacterPortrayedBy	Ralph Meeker NERFINISHED →
musicBy	Frank De Vol →
notableFor	apocalyptic ending → hard-boiled style →
originalLanguage	English →
producer	Robert Aldrich →
productionCompany	Parklane Pictures →
recognizedAs	classic film noir →
registrySelectionReason	aesthetically significant → culturally significant → historically significant →
releaseDate	1955-05-18 →
releaseYear	1955 →
runtimeMinutes	106 →
screenwriter	A. I. Bezzerides →
setting	Los Angeles →
starring	Albert Dekker → Cloris Leachman → Juano Hernandez → Marian Carr → Maxine Cooper → Paul Stewart → Ralph Meeker NERFINISHED → Wesley Addy →
theme	corruption → nuclear paranoia → violence →
timePeriodDepicted	Cold War →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Albert Dekker → Robert Aldrich → Wesley Addy →	notableWork
Kiss Me Deadly ("Kiss Me, Deadly") →	basedOn
Robert Aldrich →	directed
Wesley Addy →	workedOn