Kiss Me Deadly

Kiss Me Deadly a chilling film noir from 1955 based upon a Mickey Spillane Mike Hammer mystery. Ralph Meeker[?] plays Hammer, tough-guy private eye who is just slightly less brutal and modestly more honest than the crooks he chases. As everyone tries to get ahold of a suitcase full of glowing plutonium, the body count and paranoia keep rising to an unexpected ending. It is considered to be the American godfather to the French New Wave[?], directed with skill by Robert Aldrich[?] and introducing Cloris Leachman[?].

In 1999 the film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.