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"“Ralph Meeker is very subtle. The character’s brutal, but he himself is subtle, so there’s an interesting tension there. has freshness and humor and, of course, it’s very prophetic, and the freshness comes, I think, because all these actors were unfamiliar then and are still unfamiliar. Cloris Leachman is the only one who went on to fame. It’s such a memorable role – it just hands over the whole film. She says, ‘if anything happens to me, remember me.’ And we do.” - Molly Hask"
"Calling Kiss Me Deadly one of the darkest detective thrillers ever made, or the ultimate film noir, doesn’t do it justice. Robert Aldrich’s adaptation of Mickey Spillane’s novel doesn’t merely exemplify those two genres and identify the places where they overlap. It defines the difference between cynicism and nihilism, then throws down with the nihilists, if for no other reason than to show you what it means to live in a world where nothing matters. Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) has a suit "
"FORMAT: 35mm CONDITION: ★★★★ NOTES: 2006 Park Circus print. DATE: December 2nd 2017 CINEMA: BFI LOCATION: Southbank"