Kiss Me Deadly
Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 1BB
Thursday 16th April 2026
Dir. Robert Aldrich, 1955, US, 106 minutes, 12A
One evening, private detective (and all-round terrible human being) Mike Hammer picks up a strange woman, Christina (Cloris Leachman), who's standing on the highway wearing only a trench coat. It is a decision that 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. It is a film that has proved to be a major influence on subsequent film makers from the French New Wave to cult classics 'Repo Man' and 'Pulp Fiction'.
One evening, private detective (and all-round terrible human being) Mike Hammer picks up a strange woman, Christina (Cloris Leachman), who's standing on the highway wearing only a trench coat. It is a decision that 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. It is a film that has proved to be a major influence on subsequent film makers from the French New Wave to cult classics 'Repo Man' and 'Pulp Fiction'.
