TY - ADVS AU - Addy,Wesley AU - Aldrich,Robert AU - Bennett,Marjorie AU - Bezzerides,A.I. AU - Bonanova,Fortunio AU - Bristol,Howard AU - Carr,Marian AU - Cole,Nat King AU - Comfort,Madi AU - Cooper,Maxine AU - Cornthwaite,Robert AU - Dekker,Albert AU - Dennis,Nick AU - DeVol,Frank AU - Elam,Jack AU - Fax,Jesslyn AU - Glasgow,William AU - Harris,Albert AU - Helton,Percy AU - Hernandez,Juano AU - Lambert,Jack AU - Laszlo,Ernest AU - Leachman,Cloris AU - Luciano,Michael AU - Marshall,Mort AU - Martin,Strother AU - McCallion,Jimmy AU - Meeker,Ralph AU - Minciotti,Silvio AU - Morris,Ben AU - Richards,Paul AU - Rodgers,Gaby AU - Saville,Victor AU - Seay,James AU - Snowden,Leigh AU - Solomon,Jack AU - Spillane,Mickey AU - Stewart,Paul AU - White,Kitty ED - Criterion Collection (Firm) ED - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. ED - Parklane Pictures, Inc. TI - Kiss me deadly T2 - Criterion collection SN - 160465435X PY - 2011/// CY - [Irvington, NY?] PB - Criterion Collection KW - Spillane, Mickey, KW - Hammer, Mike (Fictitious character) KW - Drama KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - Private investigators KW - Radioactive substances KW - Women KW - Crimes against KW - Detective and mystery films KW - lcgft KW - Feature films KW - Film adaptations KW - Film noir KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - Based on the novel by Mickey Spillane; Originally produced as a motion picture in 1955; 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; Photographed by Ernest Laszlo ; film editor, Michael Luciano ; music composed and conducted by Frank DeVol ; "Rather have the blues" sung by Nat "King" Cole, Kitty White ; orchestrations by Albert Harris ; art director, William Glasgow ; set decorator, Howard Bristol ; sound, Jack Solomon; 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, Maxine Cooper, Cloris Leachman, Gaby Rodgers; Not rated N2 - 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 UR - http://midwesttapes.com/images/movies/icrcc2022d.gif ER -