Other Titles • Mickey Spillane's Kiss Me Deadly (1955) • Rattennest (1955)
Quotes from Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
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Mike Hammer: So you're a fugitive from the laughing house.
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Velda: Do me a favor, will you? Keep away from the windows. Somebody might... blow you a kiss.
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Lily Carver: Kiss me, Mike. I want you to kiss me. Kiss me. The liar's kiss that says I love you, and means something else.
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Friday: Who are you? Mike Hammer: Who am I? Who are you? Friday: I'm Friday. I'd have been named Tuesday if I'd been born on Tuesday. I'm Carl's sister, half-sister. Same mother, different father. You know, you're not like the others - Carl's friends, I mean. Mike Hammer: Maybe that's because I'm not his friend. Friday: Oh, wonderful. Then you can be my friend, all mine; nothing to do with Carl.
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Friday: Will you be my friend? Mike Hammer: What do I have to do? Friday: I want to be a close friend. Ask me something. Mike Hammer: And no matter what it is, the answer's 'yes', isn't it? Friday: Maybe. Mike Hammer: Let's see how good you are at spelling. Can you spell the word "no"? Friday: N-O spells "no." Mike Hammer: That's a good girl. Now you practice saying that. Because one of the best ways to be friendly is to know when to say no.
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[Lily is hiding in Mike's apartment] Mike Hammer: *They* tried to get her last night. Velda: They? A wonderful word. And who are they? They're the nameless ones who kill people for the great whatsit. Does it exist? Who cares? Everyone everywhere is so involved in the fruitless search for what? Why don't you turn her over to Pat? It's his job to protect her, if she needs protection. Or to question her if that's what's needed. Why are you always tryin' to make a noise like a cop?
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Velda: You want to avenge the death of your dear friend. How touching. How sweet. How nicely it justifies your quest for the great whatsit.
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Dr. G.E. Soberin: Lie still. Why torment yourself? Who would you see? Someone you do not know, a stranger. What is it we are seeking? Diamonds, rubies, gold? Perhaps narcotics? How civilized this earth used to be. But as the world becomes more primitive, its treasures become more fabulous. Perhaps sentiment will succeed where greed failed. You will die, Mr. Hammer. But your friend, you can save her. Yes you can. The young lady you picked up on the highway. She wrote you a letter. In it were two words, "Remember Me." She asks you to remember. What is it you must remember?
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Lt. Pat Murphy: You're so bright working on your own, you penny-ante gumshoe. You thought you saw something big and you tried to horn in.
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Lt. Pat Murphy: Now listen, Mike. Listen carefully. I'm going to pronounce a few words. They're harmless words. Just a bunch of letters scrambled together. But their meaning is very important. Try to understand what they mean. "Manhattan Project, Los Alamos, Trinity."
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Lt. Pat Murphy: Let the big slob sit there and think about his girl. What's likely to happen to her? Mike Hammer: I didn't know. Lt. Pat Murphy: You didn't know. Do you think you'd have done any different if you had known?
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Dr. G.E. Soberin: There is something sad and melancholy about trips. I always hate to go away. But one has to find some new place or it would be impossible to be sad and melancholy again.
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Mike Hammer: You're never around when I need you. Velda: You never need me when I'm around.
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Dr. Soberin: Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt. Whoever opens this box will be turned into brimstone and ashes.
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Dr. Soberin: The head of Medusa. That's what's in the box, and who looks on her will be changed not into stone but into brimstone and ashes. But of course you wouldn't believe me, you'd have to see for yourself, wouldn't you?
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Dr. G.E. Soberin: Listen to me, as if I were Cerberus barking with all his heads at the gates of hell. I will tell you where to take it, but don't... don't open it!
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Carl Evello: Look Mike, I like you. I like the way you handle yourself. You seem like a reasonable man. Why don't we make a deal. What's it worth to you to drag your considerable talents back to the gutter you crawled out of.
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Policeman: He's a bedroom dick.
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