Kiss Me Deadly
Blood red kisses! White hot thrills! Mickey Spillane’s latest H-bomb!
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.When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies.Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.
- Director
- Robert Aldrich
- Signature
- Tension · Craft · Drama
- Worldwide
- $726,000
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Cast
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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. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.
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Box Office & Release
Kiss Me Deadly returned 1.8× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $410,000
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $726,000
- Release date
- Apr 28, 1955
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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