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Auction History Result 2r197 KISS ME DEADLY 8 LCs 1955 Mickey Spillane, Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer, rare complete set! Date Sold 12/20/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 8 Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Cards (LCs; measure 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Mickey Spillane's Kiss Me Deadly, the 1955 Robert Aldrich romantic crime film noir melodrama ("Blood-red kisses! White-hot thrills!"; "Mickey Spillane's Latest H-Bomb!"; "'I, The Jury' ' The Long Wait' and now Mickey Spillane strips down to naked fury"; "'I don't care what you do to me, Mike - Just do it fast!'") starring Ralph Meeker (as Mike Hammer), Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernandez, Leigh Snowden, Cloris Leachman (in her first credited movie role!), Gaby Rodgers, Marian Carr, Maxine Cooper (as Velda), Jack Elam, and Jack Lambert. Note that it is thought that this movie was a major inspiration for the French New Wave movies of the 1960s. Also note that in the late 1990s, United Artists discovered the original filmed ending (director Aldrich had been forced to change it by the studio)! Finally, note that Mickey Spillane was a department store salesman in 1940 when he discovered he could sell stories for comic books, and he quickly wrote for all the major companies. After Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Air Force and became a fighter pilot. After the war, he wrote "I, the Jury" in 19 days, and it was published in 1947, and it sold 6.5 million copies in the U.S. alone. Its hero, Mike Hammer, a hard-boiled private eye, would appear in many more novels. Spillane would write for the movies, and he even played Mike Hammer in "The Girl Hunters" in 1963! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this a very rare complete set of lobby cards for this movie (we have only auctioned a complete set of cards for this title twice in all of our years of auctioning, and the last time was over thirteen years ago!) Condition: good to very good. The title card has a few pinholes around the edges and two small drip stains at left (to the right of the center tagline.) Card #5 has slightly discolored and has several pinholes around the edges and a few scuff marks in the image. Cards #3, #4,#7 and #8 have pinholes around the edges and/or light scuff marks and smudges (typical of vintage lobby cards that were likely displayed at a theater) and card #8 has some paper loss in the title and a few scuff marks in the image. Card #2 is in pretty nice condition. Overall the rare complete set with title card is in pretty nice condition and please see our super-sized image to get a good sense of the overall condition of the cards prior to placing a bid. Learn More about condition grades 
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