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The Naked Kiss

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The Naked Kiss (1964)

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Reviews Counted:9

Fresh:8

Rotten:1

Average Rating:7.4/10

Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Sam Fuller's full blown pulp melodrama is straight off the pages of dime-store crime magazines. His use of arty compositions and artificial dialogue prove once again that people only talk like this... Sam Fuller's full blown pulp melodrama is straight off the pages of dime-store crime magazines. His use of arty compositions and artificial dialogue prove once again that people only talk like this in his movies. This, his seventeenth film, takes place when all the women were dames and all the men were heels. Kelly, a former prostitute, is a woman of two worlds trying to find redemption in a world controlled by men. Relocated to Grantville, a suburb where everyone is artificially decent, she soon turns into Mother Teresa, quotes Goethe and teaches cripples to walk. The infiltration goes smoothly until she discovers a shocking murder scene and her cover begins to unravel. Fuller also manages to break traditional filmmaking manners by employing jump cuts, long inner monologues, and one of the most questionably placed and maudlin musical numbers ever filmed. [More]

Starring: Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Virginia Grey, Betty Bronson

Starring: Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Virginia Grey, Betty Bronson, Michael Dante, Patsy Kelly, Linda Francis, Barbara Perry

Director: Samuel Fuller

Director: Samuel Fuller
Producer: Samuel Fuller
Screenwriter: Samuel Fuller
Composer: Paul Dunlap

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01/26/06
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Fuller's The Naked Kiss is one of his oddest and most brutal works.

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09/20/07
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

It's Sirk-on-a-shoestring, and twice as cynical.

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05/01/06
Eric Henderson
Eric Henderson
Slant Magazine

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10/10/05
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

Melodrama masterpiece

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08/13/05
Michael E. Grost
Michael E. Grost
Classic Film and Television

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Eugene Archer
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Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Fascinatingly perverse Sam Fuller film

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08/26/02
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

The studio offended Samuel Fuller by cutting his film against his wishes.

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