Movie · 1955
Kiss Me Deadly
“Blood red kisses! White hot thrills! Mickey Spillane’s latest H-bomb!”
Released 28 April 1955 106 min Mystery / Thriller / Crime More from 1955 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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.
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How old were they?
Jesslyn Fax
as Horace's Wife
Percy Helton
as Doc Kennedy
Fortunio Bonanova
as Carmen Trivago
Marjorie Bennett
as Manager
Juano Hernández
as Eddie Yeager
Nick Dennis
as Nick
Albert Dekker
as Dr. G.E. Soberin
Paul Stewart
as Carl Evello
Wesley Addy
as Lt. Pat Murphy
James Seay
as FBI Agent
James McCallion
as Horace
Jack Lambert
as Sugar Smallhouse
Ralph Meeker
as Mike Hammer
Jack Elam
as Charlie Max
Maxine Cooper
as Velda
Marian Carr
as Friday
Cloris Leachman
as Christina Bailey
Gaby Rodgers
as Lily Carver
Leigh Snowden
as Cheesecake
Paul Richards
as Attacker
Jerry Zinneman
as Sammy
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The numbers
42years between the oldest and youngest billed
62Jesslyn Fax — oldest on the call sheet
20Paul Richards — youngest billed
41average age of the credited cast