Yes, Quentin Tarantino watched Kiss Me Deadly a few times before he made Pulp Fiction. But unlike that movie's glowing case this one isn't beautiful. It is, well, deadly. Hammer's chase for the ...

Much like 1948’s The Woman on Pier 13, which clearly began life as a standard water front gangster movie but morphed ... n roll and comic books, cited Kiss Me Deadly as the year’s most ...

One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash.

Although “Kiss Me Deadly” is Bezzerides’ best and best ... Cobb, round out the Cinematheque’s program. All five movies are essential viewing and a great way to take a crash course in ...

From "The Big Heat" to "Kiss Me Deadly," the movies racing through Colin Farrell's head in "Sugar" are some of the greatest ever made. “Sugar” is a neo-noir television series set in modern-day ...

with Sydney Chandler as the missing movie heiress, Olivia Siegel. Episode 1: “Olivia” “Kiss Me Deadly” (1955), film noir starring Ralph Meeker as detective Mike Hammer, directed by Robert ...

Chevy’s sleek roadster, which is turning 70, revved onto the big screen in a Los Angeles murder mystery from Robert Aldrich. By Seth Abramovitch Senior Writer ...

In Kiss Me Deadly, cynical private investigator Mike ... Tarantino even referenced this movie in Pulp Fiction. Don't miss it. It's the amoral, charismatic, sometimes brutal Hammer who makes ...