Review of Kiss Me Deadly (1955) by Geoffrey O'brien for The New York Review of Books — 12 Aug 2018
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer represents the deformed endproduct of a thousand 1940s tough-guy movies, transformed by now into a leisure-oriented 1950s man more interested in his hi-fi and his sports car than in heroics.
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This review of Kiss Me Deadly (1955) was written by Geoffrey O'brien and published by The New York Review of Books on 12 Aug 2018.
Kiss Me Deadly has generally received very positive reviews.
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