Episode 353: Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

The Projection Booth

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2018

⏱️ 168 minutes

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Summary

Based on the 1952 Mickey Spillane novel, Robert Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly (1955) stars Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer, a hardboiled gumshoe who gets dragged into a mystery involving a glowing case, duplicitous dames, and two-fisted violence.
Max Allan Collins, director of Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane, talks about his career and working on Mickey Spillane's posthumous work.
Writer Andrew Nette and Professor Kevin Heffernan join Mike to discuss paranoia, the cold war, and much more.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.6	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:32.2	Ah! Girls fleeing in terror from things beyond description. There are. Will you?
0:44.3	My name is Mike Hammer, if it matters.
0:49.3	What do you want?
0:51.3	He was out to get men who tortured women and killed with the ferocity of wild beasts.
0:57.7	This was their jungle.
1:00.2	Stop the knife!
1:05.0	Kiss Me deadly stars Ralph Meeker, winner of the New York Critics Award.
1:10.4	Through his great talent, the vivid character of Mike Hammer
1:13.6	comes to life as never before.
1:17.6	They came last night, right after you left.
1:20.6	I heard them.
1:22.6	I hid in the basement.
1:24.6	Only a woman could help him solve the murderous riddle of Kiss Me Deadly.
1:30.3	She's dead.
1:36.3	But I'm not dead.
1:38.3	Hey, remember me?
1:41.3	This woman's lips, cold as steel, lethal as a gun, gave him the terrifying clue he sought.
1:49.0	On this woman's lips, warm with longing, laid a shocking secret of Kiss Me Deadly. Welcome to the projection booth.
2:19.6	I'm your host, Mike White.
2:20.7	Join me once again is Mr. Kevin Heffernan.
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