Driving down a darkened highway through the desert, private eye Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) picks up a mysterious woman (Cloris Leachman) with a deadly secret. Before he can figure out what she is afraid of, she ends up dead and Hammer gets caught up in a web of intrigue that could literally mean the end of the world. While the hero of most film noir movies like this is a cool cat with the smarts to bring the bad guys to justice, the fun thing about this one is that Hammer is a bit of a dullard who is just as likely to get the crap beat out of him as he is to beat up a bad guy. That, and the cool ending, make Kiss Me Deadly stand above the rest.
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