The Dryden will screen Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, U.S. 1955, 106 min., 35mm) as part of the Noir Effect series.

A "dame," a mysterious briefcase, and a murder—Robert Aldrich uses all of the elements of the classic film noir and twists them into a glorious perverted caricature. Private dick Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) unwittingly happens upon a naked woman (Cloris Leachman) running down the middle of the road and becomes tangled in a world of international espionage and breathtaking twists. Robert Aldrich (Vera Cruz, The Dirty Dozen) never really made a bad film, but this one secured him a place in the pantheon of the greatest.

[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2016-Dec-12]