68 years ago:
Kiss Me Deadly (US)
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both fo...
1955-04-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/18030
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Remembering #AlbertDekker (1905-68), the imposing American film, stage and television character actor, born in Brooklyn #OnThisDay
Often cast as antagonists, he was terrific as (among others) the eponymous mad scientist in Dr. Cyclops (1940), the Raden twins in Among the Living (1941), crime boss Big Jim in The Killers (1946) and, unforgettably, as the murderous Dr. Soberin in Robert Aldrich's extraordinary Kiss Me Deadly (1955).

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