A woman screams, and suddenly the world is engulfed in flames. There are no big-name stars, the director has never been mentioned in the same breath as a Hitchcock or Huston, and it's basically a simple Mickey Spillane story. From Kim Morgan, Sunset Gun: When reading the request for greatest opening shots, the first film that popped into my head was immediate and almost too easy — “Kiss Me Deadly. It takes courage to slap your viewers in the face with a non-happy ending, and it is so rare (I just saw 'The Great Silence', an other rare and amazing movie ending) that the new one just frustrated me out. by Alain Silver: Go to an update of this article: Glenn Erickson reveals how the complete ending of Kiss Me Deadly was discovered. From Kim Morgan, Sunset Gun: When reading the request for greatest opening shots, the first film that popped into my head was immediate and almost too easy — “Kiss Me Deadly. The story does not involve a long vault search or a concerted effort by a film archive dedicated to such work. It fits in comfortably in the hard-boiled side of the detective genre. It's quite a surreal genre-bender. Kiss Me Deadly feels like a wild goose chase that could have very easily been written as it was being shot instead of loosely following a 3-year-old book. by Alain Silver: Go to an update of this article: Glenn Erickson reveals how the complete ending of Kiss Me Deadly was discovered. DVD Savant attempts to wrap up the mystery of why it was cut, with some new evidence - PLUS links to the original restoraton articles. From Kim Morgan, Sunset Gun: When reading the request for greatest opening shots, the first film that popped into my head was immediate and almost too easy — “Kiss Me Deadly. I mean, the film was a straightforward noir mystery (if a bit quirky), but much later it pulls a fantasy angle. Sometimes the shortened ending (the US censorship ending) is falsely referred to as the European ending, following erroneous claims by sources such as the Turner Classic Movies channel that the shortened ending comes from European versions of the film. There are so many masterful opening shots, some I find works of genius or some I simply love. ? There are so many masterful opening shots, some I find works of genius or some I simply love. I felt it was a film that played with our heads a little bit. ? You can't cater to the full range and picking one segment that works with your existing brand, customer base etc and is profitable is a real challenge. I enjoyed "Kiss me Deadly" a lot. Even with the last scene imploding the whole movie, we… And then I reflected more. Kiss Me Deadly is an absolute joy to watch. As the first century of filmmaking ends, it is extremely unfortunate that a film as recent and as celebrated as Kiss Me Deadly should be primarily available to new viewers in a truncated version. Robert Aldrich's archetypal film noir, Kiss Me Deadly, is highly influential and well rated by many critics.But the original version is said to suffer because parts of the very last scene were often missing (not sure why, but possibly because of dodgy management of the film stock). Synopsis. TLDR; broadly speaking men don't spend much on undies and the minority percentage that do have a very diverse array of what they want from them.