October 2, 2012 (XXV:5) Robert Aldrich, KISS ME DEADLY (1955, 106 min) 1999 Selected for National Film Registry Directed and produced by Robert Aldrich Based on the novel by Mickey Spillane Screenplay by A.I. Bezzerides Original Music by Frank De Vol Cinematography by Ernest Laszlo Film Editing by Michael Luciano Art Direction by William Glasgow Set Decoration by Howard Bristol Cast Ralph Meeker...Mike Hammer Albert Dekker...Dr. G.E. Soberin Paul Stewart...Carl Evello Juano Hernandez...Eddie Yeager Wesley Addy...Lt. Pat Murphy Marian Carr...Friday Marjorie Bennett...Manager Mort Marshall...Ray Diker Fortunio Bonanova...Carmen Trivago Robert Aldrich (August 9, 1918, Cranston, Rhode Island – Strother Martin...Harvey Wallace December 5, 1983, Los Angeles, California) directed 37 films and TV Mady Comfort...Nightclub Singer episodes: 1981 ...All the Marbles, 1979 The Frisco Kid, 1977 The James McCallion...Horace Choirboys, 1977 Twilight's Last Gleaming, 1975 Hustle, 1974 The Robert Cornthwaite...FBI Agent Longest Yard, 1973 Emperor of the North, 1972 Ulzana's Raid, 1971 Silvio Minciotti...Mover The Grissom Gang, 1970 Too Late the Hero, 1969 The Greatest Nick Dennis...Nick Mother of Them All, 1968 The Killing of Sister George, 1968 The Ben Morris...Radio Announcer Legend of Lylah Clare, 1967 The Dirty Dozen, 1965 The Flight of the Jack Elam...Charlie Max Phoenix, 1964 Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, 1963 4 for Texas, 1962 Paul Richards...Attacker What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, 1962 Sodom and Gomorrah, Jesslyn Fax...Horace's Wife 1961 The Last Sunset, 1959 “Adventures in Paradise”, 1959 “Hotel James Seay...FBI Agent de Paree”, 1959 The Angry Hills, 1959 Ten Seconds to Hell, 1957 The Percy Helton...Doc Kennedy Garment Jungle (uncredited), 1956 Attack, 1956 Autumn Leaves, Leigh Snowden...Cheesecake 1955 The Big Knife, 1955 Kiss Me Deadly, 1954 Vera Cruz, 1954 Jack Lambert...Sugar Smallhouse Apache, 1954 World for Ransom (uncredited), 1953-1954 “Four Star Jerry Zinneman...Sammy Playhouse”, 1953 Big Leaguer, 1952-1953 “The Doctor”, 1952 Maxine Cooper...Velda “Schlitz Playhouse”, and 1952 “China Smith.” Cloris Leachman...Christina Bailey Gaby Rodgers...Carver Mickey Spillane (b. Frank Morrison Spillane, March 9, 1918, Brooklyn, New York – July 17, 2006, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina) had 19 of his novels or stories turned into films or TV series: 1997- Aldrich—KISS ME DEADLY—2 1998 “Mike Hammer, Private Eye” (26 episodes), 1995 “Fallen “Have Gun - Will Travel” (10 episodes), 1958 Blood Arrow, 1957 Angels”, 1994 “Come Die with Me: A Mickey Spillane's Mike Copper Sky, 1956-1957 “Gunsmoke” (6 episodes), 1956 Attack, 1955 Hammer Mystery”, 1989 “Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All” The Big Knife, 1955 Kiss Me Deadly, 1954 World for Ransom, 1951 (characters), 1984-1987 “The New Mike Hammer” (44 episodes), Stop That Cab, 1947 The Return of Rin Tin Tin, 1940 Gang War, and 1984 “More Than Murder” (characters), 1983 “Murder Me, Murder 1938 Man's Country. You” (character), 1982 I, the Jury (novel), 1981 “Margin for Murder”, 1970 The Delta Factor (novel - uncredited), 1967 The Lion- Ralph Meeker...Mike Hammer (Ralph Rathgeber, November 21, Hearted Tough Guy (novel "The Deep"), 1963 The Girl Hunters 1920, Minneapolis, Minnesota – August 5, 1988, Woodland Hills, (novel - uncredited / screenplay), 1958-1959 “Mike Hammer” (78 Los Angeles, California) has 108 acting credits, some of which are episodes), 1957 My Gun Is Quick (novel), 1955 Kiss Me Deadly 1980 Without Warning, 1979 “CHiPs”, 1979 Winter Kills, 1978 The (novel "Kiss Me, Deadly"), 1954 Ring of Fear (uncredited), 1954 The Alpha Incident, 1977 “Police Woman”, 1975 “Harry O”, 1973-1975 Long Wait (novel), 1954 “Mickey Spillane's 'Mike Hammer!'” “Police Story”, 1975 “Barbary Coast”, 1975 “Movin' On”, 1975 “The (characters), and 1953 I, the Jury (novel). Rookies”, 1975 “Cannon”, 1974 “Toma”, 1968-1974 “Ironside”, 1974 “Room 222”, 1972 The Happiness A.I. Bezzerides (Albert Isaac Bezzerides, Cage, 1972 “The Night Stalker”, 1966- August 9, 1908, Samsun, Turkey – 1971 “The F.B.I.”, 1971 The Anderson January 1, 2007, Los Angeles, California) Tapes, 1970 I Walk the Line, 1970 “The has 27 screenwriting and TV credits: Virginian”, 1970 “Lost Flight”, 1969 The 2012 The Big Valley (creator) (post- Devil's 8, 1968 The Detective, 1967 “The production), 1965-1969 “The Big Valley” High Chaparral”, 1967 “Custer”, 1967 The (112 episodes), 1965 “The Virginian”, St. Valentine's Day Massacre, 1967 The 1962 “77 Sunset Strip”, 1961 “The Dirty Dozen, 1967 “The Green Hornet”, Barbara Stanwyck Show”, 1959 The 1964 “The Doctors and the Nurses”, 1963 Jayhawkers!, 1958 “Tales of Wells “The Outer Limits”, 1962-1963 “Route Fargo”, 1956 “Screen Directors 66”, 1961 Something Wild, 1961 “Walt Playhouse”, 1955 Kiss Me Deadly, 1955 Disney's Wonderful World of Color”, A Bullet for Joey, 1954 Track of the Cat, 1951 Sirocco, 1949 Thieves' 1958-1961 “The Loretta Young Show”, 1959-1960 “Not for Hire” Highway (novel "Thieves' Market" / screenplay), 1947 Desert Fury (39 episodes), 1960 “Dillinger”, 1958-1959 “Schlitz Playhouse”, (screenplay - uncredited), 1943 Action in the North Atlantic 1959 “Wanted: Dead or Alive”, 1958 “Wagon Train”, 1957 Paths of (additional dialogue), 1942 Juke Girl, and 1940 They Drive by Night Glory, 1957 The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown, 1957 Run of the Arrow, 1957 (novel "Long Haul"). “Zane Grey Theater”, 1956 “Studio 57”, 1952-1956 “Lux Video Theatre”, 1956 “The Alcoa Hour”, 1955 Desert Sands, 1955 Kiss Me Ernest Laszlo (April 23, 1898, Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Deadly, 1955 Big House, U.S.A., 1953 The Naked Spur, 1952 Shadow Hungary) – January 6, 1984, Hollywood, California) won a Best in the Sky, 1952 Glory Alley, 1951 Teresa, and 1951 Four in a Jeep. Cinematography, Black-and-White Oscar for Ship of Fools (1965). Some of his other 71 cinematographer credits are 1977 The Domino Albert Dekker...Dr. G.E. Soberin (Albert Van Dekker, December Principle, 1976 Logan's Run, 1970 Airport, 1968 Star!, 1967 Luv, 20, 1905, Brooklyn, New York – May 5, 1968, Hollywood, 1966 Fantastic Voyage, 1965 Ship of Fools, 1965 Baby the Rain Must California) has 106 acting credits, among them 1969 The Wild Bunch, Fall, 1963 4 for Texas, 1963 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, 1961 1968 “Bonanza”, 1968 “I Spy”, 1967 “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”, Judgment at Nuremberg, 1960 Inherit the Wind, 1959 “The Rebel”, 1966 “Mission: Impossible”, 1966 “Death of a Salesman”, 1965 1959 Ten Seconds to Hell, 1958 Attack of the Puppet People, 1957 “Rawhide”, 1964 “The Defenders”, 1964 “Kraft Suspense Theatre”, Omar Khayyam, 1957 Valerie, 1956 While the City Sleeps, 1955 The 1961 “Naked City”, 1961 “Westinghouse Presents: The Big Knife, 1955 The Kentuckian, 1955 Kiss Me Deadly, 1954 Vera Dispossessed”, 1961 “Route 66”, 1959 Suddenly, Last Summer, 1959 Cruz, 1954 Apache, 1954 About Mrs. Leslie, 1954 The Naked Jungle, The Sound and the Fury, 1957-1958 “ITV Play of the Week”, 1957 1953 Houdini, 1953 Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach, 1953 The Moon Is She Devil, 1955 Illegal, 1955 Kiss Me Deadly, 1955 “Goodyear Blue, 1953 Stalag 17, 1953 Scared Stiff, 1952 The Star, 1952 Mutiny, Playhouse”, 1955 East of Eden, 1954 The Silver Chalice, 1951 1951 The Well, 1951 M, 1950 The Jackie Robinson Story, 1950 “Celanese Theatre”, 1951 “Pulitzer Prize Playhouse”, 1950 The Kid D.O.A., 1949 Impact, 1949 Cover Up, 1948 The Girl from from Texas, 1949 Search for Danger, 1949 Tarzan's Magic Fountain, Manhattan, 1948 Lulu Belle, 1947 Road to Rio, 1946 Two Years 1948 Fury at Furnace Creek, 1947 Gentleman's Agreement, 1947 Before the Mast, 1929 Linda, 1929 The White Outlaw, and 1928 The Cass Timberlane, 1947 Wyoming, 1947 Slave Girl, 1946 The Killers, Pace That Kills. 1946 Two Years Before the Mast, 1945 Incendiary Blonde, 1945 Salome Where She Danced, 1943 The Woman of the Town, 1942 The Michael Luciano (May 2, 1909, Mcadoo, Pennsylvania – September Forest Rangers, 1942 Wake Island, 1942 In Old California, 1941 15, 1992, Los Angeles, California) has 51 editing credits, among Honky Tonk, 1940 Seven Sinners, 1940 Dr. Cyclops, 1940 Strange them 1981 Stripes, 1977 Twilight's Last Gleaming, 1974 The Longest Cargo, 1939 Beau Geste, 1939 The Man in the Iron Mask, 1938 The Yard, 1973 Emperor of the North, 1972 Ulzana's Raid, 1968 The Last Warning, 1938 The Lone Wolf in Paris, 1937 The Great Garrick, Killing of Sister George, 1967 The Dirty Dozen, 1965 The Flight of and 1935 The Lady in Black. the Phoenix, 1964 Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, 1963 4 for Texas, 1962 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, 1959 The Wonderful Paul Stewart...Carl Evello (b. Paul Sternberg, March 13, 1908, New Country, 1958 “The Donna Reed Show” (12 episodes), 1957-1958 York City, New York – February 17, 1986, Los Angeles, California) Aldrich—KISS ME DEADLY—3 was in 11 films and TV series, among them 1983 “Remington Red Badge of Courage, 1950 The Asphalt Jungle, and 1950 The Steele”, 1982 Tempest, 1981 Nobody's Perfekt, 1981 S.O.B., 1979 Damned Don't Cry. “Lou Grant”, 1978 Revenge of the Pink Panther, 1977 “The Rockford Files”, 1975 “Matt Helm”, 1975 “Ellery Queen”, 1975 The Day of the Jack Elam...Charlie Max (b. William Scott Elam, November 13, Locust, 1975 “The Streets of San Francisco”, 1973 “Columbo”, 1969- 1920, Miami, Gila, Arizona – October 20, 2003, Ashland, Oregon) 1971 “The Name of the Game”, 1968-1970 “Mannix”, 1970 “Mod has 205 acting credits, among them 1995 “Bonanza: Under Attack”, Squad”, 1970 “Gunsmoke”, 1968 Jigsaw, 1965 The Greatest Story 1994-1995 “Lonesome Dove: The Series”, 1993 “Bonanza: The Ever Told, 1964