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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9780780021082
Format: Black & White, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780021088
Label: Criterion
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0
Manufacturer: Criterion
MPN: PMIDNAK020D
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 26, 1998
Running Time: 90 minutes
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: October 29, 1964
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Product Description:
Prostitue constance towers tries to leave the city streets behind her and start a new life in a small quiet town but soon discovers a dark secret that threatens her new existence. Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 08/25/1998 Starring: Michael Dante Anthony Eisley Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Samuel Fuller
Amazon.com Review:
Until Sam Fuller came along, movies in the 1960s were still bound by Hollywood's self-imposed and often hypocritical rules of discretion. The crimes and misdemeanors of lurid pulp fiction remained on drugstore spin-racks and newsstands, diluted on screen until Fuller, with his cigar-chomping audacity and confrontational style, liberated movies from artificial restraint and kicked them into the meaner, darker, but more honest maturity of the post-Kennedy era. Shock Corridor announced Fuller's brazen agenda a year earlier, but The Naked Kiss is even more astonishing because its trashy, provocative plot dares to find depth and humanity beneath the hardened shells of corrupted souls.
The film begins like no other before it: Kelly (Constance Towers) beats her pimp with a handbag, grabs the cash he owes her, adjusts her telltale wig and makeup, and sets out to begin life anew, free from the shame of prostitution. Two years later she's in Grantville, a typically Rockwellian slice of Americana, working wonders with disabled kids and gaining distance from her miserable past. She's even engaged to the town's most respected citizen, but dark clouds are gathering: a corrupt cop knows Kelly's hidden secrets; a nearby brothel taints the community; and a pedophile is lurking in the shadows. Through it all, Fuller calibrates The Naked Kiss with such precision that sentiment and sordidness can run parallel without colliding, shifting from outrageous vice to shameless tear-jerking with equal facility. With twisted tricks up his sleeve, Fuller can be accused of tabloid tackiness, but that would be missing the point: In Fuller's cruel and ugly world, compassion still finds a way to survive. --Jeff Shannon
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"The Naked Kiss" is in-your-face pulp fiction, written, directed, and produced by Sam Fuller in 1964. It's reminiscent of film noir, but with an effrontery and moralism that makes it unique. The opening scene is one of cinema's most memorable, as cinematographer Stanley Cortez' camera stares into the eyes of a call girl as she beats the living daylights out of her pimp. Soon Kelly (Constance Towers) is on the run from the pimp, eventually landing in the small town of Grantville. In spite of her elegance, ... Read More
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Sam Fuller's The Naked Kiss is one of those strange cult films that is so bad and so inherently odd that it begins to grow on you. The film attempts to present the underbelly of American post war society for what it is. The suburbs may look fresh and clean but they are filled with moral decay.
Kelly (Constance Towers) is a former prostitute who moves to Grantsville to begin a new life. There she becomes involved with the town police Captain, Griff (Anthony Eisley) who sees her only for what she ... Read More
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I recently viewed the Critereon edition of THE NAKED KISS (1964), director's Sam Fuller raw, brutal yet at the same time sentimental and charming expose of "one of the truths behind the American way of life" circa 1964.
To say that Sam Fuller's films are "the cinema of the extreme " is to understate the situation. Mr. Fuller seemed to believe he could illustrate his theories of why things are the way they are by usng the most extreme examples in every story and idea.
In THE NAKED KISS, ... Read More
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Sam Fuller wrote numerous hard-boiled scripts for the majors Hollywood studios, including 1952's Scandal Sheet, 1953's Pickup on South Street and 1961's Underworld U.S.A. In 1963 he launched a sensational string of independently produced films by writing and directing the lurid expose, Shock Corridor. He followed up in 1964 with this even more brutal story of small town corruption. Fuller's films from this era were pulp novels brought to the screen, hard-hitting stories of troubled and troubling souls, laced with ... Read More
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Maverick American filmmaker Sam Fuller was both a progressive and a prude, and no film of his better illustrates this schismic personal dichotomy, echoed in his art's use of high and low techniques, than his 1964 black and white film noir melodrama The Naked Kiss, a cult classic whose title derives from its lead character, a prostitute named Kelly, who describes the kiss of the fiancée she kills, that way, meaning she could tell he was a sexual deviant from the get go. It's a film that has brilliance, inanity, ... Read More
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