When a distressed woman clad in nothing but a trench coat sends Hammer’s Jaguar careening off the side of the moonlit highway, he gives her a lift that’s quickly truncated by an unknown cadre of thugs up ahead, who torture the woman to death and send Hammer to the hospital. As Spillane has said in adorable earnest, “Why did they do that? Why did they mess up something so good?” Downgrading Hammer to divorce PI, swapping dope for a radioactive whatsit, laying bare Hammer’s crude sadism, and infusing the story with a queer sensibility, it’s a violent, sexy, brilliant, and above all idiosyncratic atom-age noir. Urn:oclc:877034010 Scandate 20100701205025 Scanner scribe7.la.archive.Little but the title survives of Mickey Spillane’s 1952 source novel in Kiss Me Deadly, but the well-known persona of the blunt, rightwing author and his misanthropic dick Mike Hammer are a rallying point for the baldly subversive aims of Robert Aldrich and screenwriter A.I. OL40198W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.05 Pages 268 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1846172543 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:08:22 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA110906 Boxid_2 CH123701 Camera Canon 5D City Thorndike, Me.
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