Kiss Me Deadly

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Part of our Noir-vember Film Talk Series !

Partner up with our guest speakers all November long as they take you through the classic world of film noir, cinema’s home to all things existential and hard-boiled, and four of the most impactful pictures this genre has to offer!

In this atomic adaptation of Mickey Spillane’s novel, directed by Robert Aldrich, the good manners of the 1950s are blown to smithereens. Ralph Meeker stars as ruthless private dick Mike Hammer, whose decision one dark, lonely night to pick up a hitchhiking woman sends him down some terrifying byways. Brazen and bleak, Kiss Me Deadly is a film noir masterwork as well as an essential piece of Cold War paranoia, and it features as nervy an ending as has ever been seen in American cinema.

Jeffrey Bender

Jeffrey Bender has hosted a number of in-person and online Film Talks with the Westdale, most recently ‘Ride or Die Cinema’. He joins us this fall to host ‘Great Beyonds: The Afterlife on Film’, featuring four essential explorations into the afterlife as interpreted throughout film history, as well as serving as one of the guest speakers for Noirvember, featuring a survey of classic and contemporary film noir.