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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Film-Noir /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Robert Aldrich
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Actors:
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Ralph Meeker,
Juano Hernandez,
Percy Helton,
Marian Carr,
Nick Dennis,
Leigh Snowden,
Maxine Cooper,
Gaby Rodgers,
Jerry Zinneman,
Albert Dekker,
Paul Stewart,
Wesley Addy,
Cloris Leachman,
Jack Lambert,
Jack Elam
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Duration:
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102 min.
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Rating:
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(7.7/10)45.5
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Plot Summary:
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Hard-hitting detective Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) takes on thugs and atomic secrets in Robert Aldrich's fast-paced thriller Forget about ME Ruthless, an fitting of the Mickey Spillane novel. The night goes awry for Hammer in time after he picks up a scantily clad hitchhiker (Cloris Leachman). The next thing he knows, he's assaulted nigh a join of goons and the steamy drifter turns up dun stagnant. As Hammer tracks down the murderers, he realises he is twisted in an intercontinental conspiracy--one that could charge him his life. Habitually considered to be the superior of the many films centri... ng on Spillane's classic principal and lauded as a exceptional inspiration and building block in the course of the French Nouvelle Vacuous, Peck ME DEADLY boasts awful imagery, a careening, sinuous plot, and an unforgettable shock ending.
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Hits The Ground Running
I absolutely loved this movie. The style and pacing are breath-taking. The influences to Speilberg and Tarantino, amongst others, is plain to see. It pulls no punches (or slaps) with a hero whose does not shy away from, and seems to enjoy, torturing info out of people. There's so many great things in this movie, it would be impossible to list them all. But I should mention the coolest answerphone you'll ever see - where do I get one?
MEANINGLESS
Don't get me wrong, I love a good film noir as much as the next man - this just didn't do the business for me. The film centres on a typical male for film noir, hard-edged and tough, who finds a girl screaming on a motorway road and nearly runs her over. She says she wants a lift to the nearest bus stop, however, before they get to the bus stop they are ambushed, drugged, placed into a car and pushed off a cliff. Of course, the male who's name is Hammer survives and he tries to unravel the mystery of the girls death. Soon people begin dropping like flies, including his friends and unknown men with unknown motives are after him. This is fine of course, the suspense is good and Hammer slaps a few people around very nicely, but where is it all leading to? And surely a film should ...
Kiss Me Deadly
Ahead of its period Mike Hammer noir master-work, riddled with Bleak Warfare paranoia and populated by wholly unsavoury characters
Adapted from a novel by Mickey Spillane, a thread that's as impenetrable as it is compelling and characters ranging from the wretched to the unsavoury, run the show in loaded-difference atrocious-and-waxen and considered a menace to bund by government authorities - the at worst thing stopping Buss Me Exact being considered the ultimate film noir is the absence of Robert Mitchum.
As it is, Robert Aldrich's black-as-flounder picture stars Ralph Meeker (Paths Of Laudation, The Sordid Dozen) as the lantern-jawed PI Mike Hammer - a mortals so tough you're never sure whether he's going to stub out-dated his cigare...
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