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Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC2022D | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 568.Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Edition: DVD edition; DVD special editionDescription: 1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in + 1 booklet (20 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • video
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781604654356
  • 160465435X
Other title:
  • Mickey Spillane's Kiss me deadly
Uniform titles:
  • Kiss me deadly (Motion picture)
Related works:
  • Motion picture screenplay based on (work): Spillane, Mickey, 1918-2006. Kiss me deadly
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .K57 2011
  • PN1995.9.F54 K57 2011
Production credits:
  • Photographed by Ernest Laszlo ; film editor, Michael Luciano ; music composed and conducted by Frank DeVol ; "Rather have the blues" sung by Nat "King" Cole ; orchestrations by Albert Harris ; art director, William Glasgow ; set decorator, Howard Bristol ; sound, Jack Solomon.
Cast: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernandez, Wesley Addy, Marion Carr, Marjorie Bennett, Fortunio Bonanova, Madi Comfort, Robert Cornthwaite, Nick Dennis, Jack Elam, Jesslyn Fax, Percy Helton, Jack Lambert, Mort Marshall, Strother Martin, James McCallion, Silvio Minciotti, Ben Morris, Paul Richards, James Seay, Leigh Snowden, Jerry Zinneman, Maxine Cooper, Cloris Leachman, Gaby Rodgers.Summary: While driving down a lonely road late one evening, Hammer picks up a beautiful blonde hitchhiker, dressed in nothing but a raincoat. At first, Hammer assumes that the incoherent girl is an escaped lunatic; his mind is changed for him when he and the girl are abducted by two thugs. The men torture the girl to death as the semiconscious Hammer watches helplessly. He himself escapes extermination when the murderers' car topples off a cliff and he is thrown clear. Seeking vengeance, Hammer tries to discover the secret behind the girl's murder.
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-02309 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050184836

Based on the novel by Mickey Spillane.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1955.

Wide screen (1.66:1).

Supplements: Audio commentary by film noir specialists Alain Silver and James Ursini; director Alex Cox on Kiss me deadly; "Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane" documentary directed by Max Allan Collins; excerpts from The long haul of A.I. Bezzerides; "Bunker Hill, Los Angeles" video piece on film's locations by Jim Dawson; "Ending altered" truncated ending which was presented as the film's ending for three decades; Theatrical trailer. Booklet: "The thriller of tomorrow" by J. Hoberman; "You can't hang up the meat hook" by Robert Aldrich.

Not rated.

DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby Digital, monaural.

In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

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