The Naked Kiss
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| The Naked Kiss | |
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| Directed by | Samuel Fuller |
| Produced by | Samuel Fuller |
| Written by | Samuel Fuller |
| Starring | Constance Towers Anthony Eisley Michael Dante Virginia Grey |
| Music by | Paul Dunlap |
| Cinematography | Stanley Cortez |
| Editing by | Jerome Thoms |
| Distributed by | Allied Artists Pictures Corporation |
| Release date(s) | October 29, 1964 (U.S.A.) |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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The Naked Kiss is a 1964 film written and directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Constance Towers as Kelly, Anthony Eisley as Captain Griff and Michael Dante as J.L. Grant.[1]
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[edit] Plot
Kelly (Constance Towers), is a prostitute, and shows up in the town of Grantville, where she engages in a quick tryst with sheriff Griff (Anthony Eisley), who then tells her to stay out of his town and refers her to a cat-house in a nearby town.
Instead, she decides to give up her illicit lifestyle, and becomes involved in working with handicapped children.
Griff doesn't trust reformed prostitutes, and continues trying to run her out of town.
Kelly falls in love with Grant (Michael Dante), the scion of the town's founding family and Griff's best friend. After Kelly convinces Griff that she loves Grant and has given up prostitution for good she murders Grant because she discovers he's a child molester. Kelly has to convince Griff and the town of her motivations for killing Grant were reasonable.
[edit] Cast
- Constance Towers as Kelly
- Anthony Eisley as Capt. Griff
- Michael Dante as J.L. Grant
- Virginia Grey as Candy
- Patsy Kelly as Mac, Head Nurse
- Marie Devereux as Buff
- Karen Conrad as Dusty
- Linda Francis as Rembrandt
- Bill Sampson as Jerry
- Sheila Mintz as Receptionist
- Patricia Gayle as Nurse
- Jean-Michel Michenaud as Kip
- George Spell as Tim
- Christopher Barry as Peanuts
- Patty Robinson as Angel Face
[edit] Critical reception
The staff at Variety magazine gave the film and acting a positive review, writing, "Good Samuel Fuller programmer about a prostie trying the straight route, The Naked Kiss is primarily a vehicle for Constance Towers. Hooker angles and sex perversion plot windup are handled with care, alternating with handicapped children 'good works' theme...Towers' overall effect is good, director Fuller overcoming his routine script in displaying blonde looker's acting range."[2]
Critic Jerry Renshaw liked the film and wrote, "The Naked Kiss finds Sam Fuller's tabloid sensibilities boiling to the surface, as it dwells on the uncomfortable and taboo subjects of deviancy, prostitution, and small-town sanctimony. In typical Fuller style, it's a hard look at a nightmarish world, lurid and absorbing enough to demand that the viewer watch. It's part melodrama, part sensationalism, and part surreal, but above all it's absolutely, positively 100% Sam Fuller, with all the nuance and subtlety of a swift kick in the butt."[3]
[edit] References
- ^ The Naked Kiss at the Internet Movie Database.
- ^ Variety. Film review, October 29, 1964. Last accessed: January 11, 2008.
- ^ Renshaw, Jerry. The Austin Chronicle, film review, July 27, 1998. Last accessed: January 11, 2008.
[edit] External links
- The Naked Kiss at the Internet Movie Database.
- The Naked Kiss at Allmovie.
- The Naked Kiss at DVD Beaver (includes images).
- The Naked Kiss essay at the Criterion Collection by Michael Dare.
- The Naked Kiss film review at Alt Film Guide's.
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