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A prostitute on the run from her pimp winds up in a small town where she becomes friends with the local police chief Griff. She takes a job in the hospital helping handicapped children and falls for Griff's friend Grant, who appears too good to be true... until she witnesses something she shouldn't have. Read more

Starring Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante, Virginia Grey
Director Samuel Fuller
Genres Thriller

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The Naked Kiss

A prostitute on the run from her pimp winds up in a small town where she becomes friends with the local police chief Griff. She takes a job in the hospital helping handicapped children and falls for Griff's friend Grant, who appears too good to be true... until she witnesses something she shouldn't have.

Starring Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante, Virginia Grey, Patsy Kelly, Betty Bronson, Marie Devereux
Director Samuel Fuller
Studio METRODOME DISTRIBUTION LTD
Certificate DVD Certificate 18.gif
Genres Thriller
Language English
Released DVD: 17 Nov 2003
Production year: 1964
Format DVD
  • Critics' reviews (3) of The Naked Kiss

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    A typically bleak and brutal tale from maverick American independent Sam Fuller, who this time turns his cynical eye to the corrupt values lurking beneath small-town life. Constance Towers gives a dignified performance, especially considering the circumstances, as a former prostitute who attempts to build a new life in a new town, but finds her past coming back to haunt her when she tries to establish a relationship with the local leading citizen. The storyline is pure melodrama, but the harsh black-and-white photography and the startling images mark this out as a cult classic.

    • Radio Times
  • Not altogether the best of Fuller, despite an electrifying opening sequence in which a statuesque blonde (Towers)... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    The original cuckoo's nest?

    This black'n white thriller was a real surprise for me - suggested by a friend with a 'unique' taste in films!

    It is a film set in an insane asylum, but not a scary horror type, more of a whodunnit mixed with the gradual mental disintegration of a reporter working undercover to expose a murderer.

    The acting is perfect for the era, the voiceovers geniunely powerful, and the flow of the film allows the viewer time to figure out whether the reporter is acting or really losing the plot.

    This may not be the obvious choice for a friday night movie, but it is well wort a look. Go on!

      • DrMikey from Middlewich
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  • 0 out of 3 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    received as a mistake and not watched

    After having seen Shock Corrider with which this is a set, I decided that life was too short too watch what seemed to be another purely sensationalist move.

      • Saty from Reading
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