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Kiss Us Fatal is a 1955 film produced and directed by Robert Aldrich starring Ralph Meeker. A screenplay was written by A. I. Bezzerides based on a Mickey Spillane Mike Hammer mystery story.

Kiss Us Fatal is considered the classic of the film noir genre. Information pop up around such diverse films when Alex Cox's Repo Man (1984), Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994), when well as Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997). the picture grossed $726,000 in the States & a amount of $226,000 overseas.

Meeker plays Hammer, the hard Los Angeles private eye who is upright slightly less brutal & with modesty further honorable than a crooks he chases. Of these evening, Hammer gives the ride to an attractive hitchhiker potrayed by Cloris Leachman, whom he picks up on the lonely united states road. Hoodlum waylay a two & click his car above the drop, killing the hitchiker. Hammer declares payback & sets intent on potentially a score, of these by a single. Exchange to Hammer's quest occurs as mysterious & little however extremely valued pack containing the mighty however unsafe glowing substance.

Inside 1999 Kiss Me Fatal was deemed "culturally significant" per United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

CMJ: Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
CMJ review: "surveys edgy pop, dance rhythms, harsh Pornography-style guitar rock, slick commercial pop and lots more, merging in an exciting blend of styles."

AMG All Music Guide: Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Stephen Thomas Erlewine's review: "its best moments - including the deceptively bouncy "Why Can't I Be You?" and the stately "Just Like Heaven" - are remarkable and help make the album one of the group's very best." 3 stars.

Ink Blot Magazine: Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Johanna Ravich's review: "While Robert Smith's voice remains as captivating as ever, it's the passion behind his lyrics that makes this album so special to so many Cure fans."






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