- HD 1080
- Runtime: 106m.
- Status: Released
- 1
- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Robert Aldrich
- Stars: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernández, Wesley Addy
- keywords: film noir, hitchhiker, beach house, convertable
- Production_studio: Parklane Pictures Inc., United Artists
- Slogan: Blood red kisses! White hot thrills! Mickey Spillane’s latest H-bomb!
- The Kiss Me Deadly is featured in the top rankings of 1955
- #7 in Top Crime Movies of 1955
- #6 in Top Thriller Movies of 1955
- #4 in Top Mystery Movies of 1955
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.