Title: Classic forgotten film noir
Product review: Mickey Spillane was famous for his trash detective novels in the '50s, read by nearly every crime-fiction buff. Director Robert Aldrich turns Spillane's trash into one of thje best - and most shocking - film noirs. Ralph Meeker makes a nasty Mike Hammer, who finds himself drawn into a terror plot by a woman he rescues on the highway lae at night, only to discover himself captured and the woman tortured by the thugs seeking to smuggle fissile material. I don't want to spoil the plot, but Quentin Tarantino fans will recognize he paid this film homage in ``Pulp Fiction.'' Don't miss this. Criterion does its usual superlative job in the transfer and graphics. Class A all the way.
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