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letterboxd.comA ★★★★½ review of Kiss Me Deadly (1955)Essential film noir. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) is a far cry from Sam Spade or Phillip Marlowe. He's not so much a detective as he is an opportunistic thug. Hammer picks up a woman wearing only a trench-coat (Cloris Leachman in her film debut). She's an escapee from an asylum, but she's not crazy. They get caught. The girl is tortured and murdered, while Hammer is left for dead. When Hammer awakens in a hospital, he's determined to find her killers. Not for honor, but for revenge. Oh yeah, and he figures that if they're that desperate, there's