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The Naked Kiss (1964)

Rate: 3
Viewed: 6/14

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6/14: Coming fresh off Schlock Corridor which is a dreck picture of the highest order, I began The Naked Kiss with great reluctance.

As expected, it's another tacky trash in Samuel Fuller's oeuvre. Although The Naked Kiss is a bit better than the other one, it's wildly hokey that contains a lot of singing and pirate bullshit. Obviously, the director meant to make it camp enough to be added to anyone's list of cult films.

The acting is amateurish, the direction is hammy, the editing is scattered, and the plot is laughably poor. I can't believe how long one particular singing scene was, causing my mind to die.

Constance Towers, who was 30, looks twenty years older. By the time the revelation was made, it didn't seem significant, yet Kelly had to kill the pervert to justify her disgust. Yeah, I believe that's murder in the first degree, no matter how everybody slices it. The whole situation becomes manipulative and corny from thereon, further insulting my intelligence.

All in all, The Naked Kiss is piss-poor crap.