Kiss Me Deadly is loosely based on the sixth of Mickey Spillane’s 13 Mike Hammer novels, and the film is presented with much of the muscular efficiency of Spillane’s prose. But there’s one thing the bad guys didn’t bet on: “Mike” is Mike Hammer, Private Investigator, and he makes it his mission to avenge Christina. Now in cahoots, Christina begs him to remember her if they don’t make it to safety. She tells him she’s on the run from a psychiatric hospital, and Mike takes a kind of amused liking to her and helps hide her from a police roadblock. Her name is Christina, he’s Mike, and they get talking. It works, and she is picked up by the surly driver (Ralph Meeker). Desperate, she steps out in front of the next one.
He passed away in 2006.A young woman in nothing but a trench coat (Cloris Leachman) tries to flag down a car on a dark highway, but they all speed past.
In 1995 he was named a Grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America.
Kiss Me, Deadly Includes a special introduction by Shamus and Edgar Award-winner Lawrence BlockĪbout the Author Mickey Spillane is one of the world's bestselling novelists, with sales of over 200 million copies worldwide of his more than 30 books, including the series featuring hard-boiled private eye Mike Hammer. This powerhouse collection includes three of the master's long-out-of-print greatest novels-together for the first time in one explosive volume: About the Book Featuring a special Introduction by Lawrence Block, this trade anthology features three complete Mike Hammer novels: "One Lonely Night, The Big Kill", and "Kiss Me Deadly".īook Synopsis "There's a kind of power about Mickey Spillane that no other writer can imitate."- The New York Times With his trend-setting Mike Hammer detective novels, Mickey Spillane shot to superstardom as one of the most notorious bestselling sensations in publishing history.
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