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Noir Classic KISS ME DEADLY Coming To Criterion

March 23, 2011 Rich Drees

As the two-fisted private detective Mike Hammer, Ralph Meeker chiseled in granite the image of the tough film noir protagonist in director Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly. Following a code of honor that puts him [click for more]

Maxine Cooper, KISS ME DEADLY’s Velda, Has Died

April 19, 2009 Rich Drees

Maxine Cooper, the actress who played Mike Hammer’s trusted secretary Velda in director Robert Aldrich’s classic 1955 film noir Kiss Me Deadly, has died in Los Angeles, CA. She was 84. Cooper, who went by [click for more]