A movie so dark and perverse
to sweetness and light it's averse
Its cynical "hero"
is lower than zero
and credits are run in reverse
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955). Barely escaping annihilation are private detective Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) and girl Friday, Velda (Maxine Cooper). Here's an earlier Deadly limerick. Photo source: Only the Cinema
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For the name of this film you can quiz me,
It isn't a cartoon from Disney,
It's a noir black as coal
With a still-blacker soul
And it says that it's called "Deadly Kiss Me."
THREE VIEWS OF "KISS ME DEADLY
I
Naught but madness is seen slammin' 'roun'.
Butch Rodgers goes looned-out;
The beach house gets boomed-out;
What gives with Ralph Meeker's grim clown?
From the titles on, All's Upside-Down.
II
"Christina" is talked of and sought,
A trench-coated odd babe gets caught,
One fight coach acts sleazy,
Poor Velda gets off easy,
And Nat Cole bemoans that which he's "got."
III
A "bedroom dick"
Acts far-from-slick;
Gaby
Turns crabby
-- "BOOM!!" [sic]
(copyright 2010, Chris Schneider)
I think you two just paid me a backwards compliment. Brilliant use of form. Bravo!
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