EPISODE · May 22, 2023 · 26 MIN
Kiss Me Deadly
from Fifteen Minute Film Fanatics · host Fifteen-Minute Film Fanatics
Mike has been badgering Dan for years to reevaluate Kiss Me Deadly, Robert Aldrich's now-canonical 1955 noir. Mike always loved it; Dan always thought it was overrated. Does he still think so after a fresh viewing? Join them for a conversation about how the history of a film's reception may only be partly due to the film's quality, the ways in which Kiss Me Deadly works like a dream, and the degree to which the Mike Hammer Universe differs from the MCU. Va-va-voom! Interested in reading the original novel--with a different Mcguffin the the same box? Find it here. Here's a new biography of Mickey Spillane written by crime novelist Max Allan Collins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Mike has been badgering Dan for years to reevaluate Kiss Me Deadly, Robert Aldrich's now-canonical 1955 noir. Mike always loved it; Dan always thought it was overrated. Does he still think so after a fresh viewing? Join them for a conversation about how the history of a film's reception may only be partly due to the film's quality, the ways in which Kiss Me Deadly works like a dream, and the degree to which the Mike Hammer Universe differs from the MCU. Va-va-voom! Interested in reading the original novel--with a different Mcguffin the the same box? Find it here. Here's a new biography of Mickey Spillane written by crime novelist Max Allan Collins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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