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10 Shades of Noir
Footnotes for "So What's with the Ending of Kiss Me Deadly?"
by Alain Silver

1. A.I. Bezzerides, Kiss Me Deadly screenplay, p. 130. Bezzerides wrote:

    305 BEACH - VELDA AND MIKE

    Velda helps Mike and they run through the darkness which is stabbed by sharp flickers of light. Now, as they COME CLOSER TO CAMERA, there is a tremendous explosion. Light gushes fiercely upon them. and they stop, turn.

    306 ON BEACH COTTAGE

    It is a boiling ball of fire.

    307 ON BEACH - VELDA AND MIKE

    As he holds her, to protect her from the sight. Debris from the shattered house falls hissing into the sea behind them.

    FADE OUT:

T H E   E N D


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2. Jack Shadoian, Dreams and Dead Ends, The American Gangster/Crime Film (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1977), pp. 349-350.
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3. J.P. Telotte, Voices in the Dark, The Narrative Patterns of Film Noir (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1989), p. 213.
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4. Robin Wood, "Creativity and Evaluation: two film noirs of the '50's," CineAction!, No. 20/21 (November, 1990), p. 20.
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5. Edward Gallefent, "Kiss Me Deadly" in The Book of Film Noir (New York: Continuum, 1993), p. 246.
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6. Edwin T. Arnold and Eugene L Miller, The Films and Career of Robert Aldrich (Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 1986), p. 246.
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