Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Directed by Robert Aldrich · 106 min · Mystery, Thriller, Crime
43.0 TOPICAL score · #2,441 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →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.
Kiss Me Deadly (1955, directed by Robert Aldrich) has a TOPICAL score of 43.0 - ranked 2,441 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on historical impact and critics, and lowest on awards. Critics: 98% on Rotten Tomatoes · 8.1/10 critics' average. Audiences: TMDB 7.2/10 (426 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 27 languages, and the Library of Congress chose it for the National Film Registry.
Why this score
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- Critics98% on Rotten Tomatoes · 8.1/10 critics' average
- AudienceTMDB 7.2/10 (426 ratings)
- Awards0 wins, 0 nominations
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 27 languages · National Film Registry
- Still read11,989 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker (actor #1,520), Paul Stewart (actor #1,329), Juano Hernández