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The Naked Kiss (1964)

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Kelly, is a feminist who takes on the causes of abused women and disabled children. Originally a prostitute, she flees from the city to a small town where she reforms after she looks in the mirror and sees "nothing but the buck, the bed, and the bottle for the rest of my life." She falls in love with Grant (Michael Dante), the town's philanthropist and most eligible bachelor, but a sinister secret he's hiding mars their chance for a happy ending.

Unrated, 1 hr. 30 min.

Drama, Classics

Samuel Fuller

Aug 26, 1998

All Critics (16) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (1) | DVD (11)

... arguably the most aggressively defiant film of his career.

March 25, 2011 Full Review Source: Turner Classic Movies Online | Comment
Turner Classic Movies Online

Like Fuller, Kelly believes in the direct approach, and a good slap can get quick results.

February 26, 2011 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

uses it tabloid-sensational subject matter to probe at the country's darkest recesses

January 23, 2011 Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | Comment
Q Network Film Desk

An audacious mix of cynicism, sleaze, sentimental gooeyness and social commentary, it's bizarre and at times an assault on the senses...

January 18, 2011 Full Review Source: Parallax View | Comment
Parallax View

No one slaps the f-stop out of pimps like Constance Towers!

January 18, 2011 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

Fuller's The Naked Kiss is one of his oddest and most brutal works.

September 20, 2007 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

It's Sirk-on-a-shoestring, and twice as cynical.

May 1, 2006 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

Melodrama masterpiece

August 13, 2005 Comment
Classic Film and Television

Fascinatingly perverse Sam Fuller film

August 26, 2002 Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

The studio offended Samuel Fuller by cutting his film against his wishes.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
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Fuller's take on melodrama is much more brutal. A very risque subject for it's time, this pulp classic holds up very well today.

October 30, 2011
Graham Jones

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whoa. a great vehicle for constance towers and lurid as all hell. fuller strikes a blow for female empowerment.

November 23, 2007
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