| On Jul 23, 6:58 pm, George Peatty <peattyg47-1... at (no spam) copper.net> wrote: Quote:On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:06:04 -0700 (PDT), Voltronicus <fwdi... at (no spam) hotmail.com wrote: Even though it strayed from Spillane's novel, I feel "Kiss Me Deadly", starring Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer is the most effective filming of Spillane's work. This film is under-rated classic film noir. No. I like it, too, all except the ending, but no: Kiss Me Deadly is intended to be the "anti-noir" .. Spend some time over on the imdb page, and read some of the comments there and on the Classics Film Board. Noir films embrace the conventions of noir; they do not repudiate them, as this film tries to do .. Interesting point - "film blanc" perhaps? Anyway, I'm going to add it to my Netflix list for another viewing in the not-too-distant future. |