Kiss me Deadly by Robert Aldrich has probably one of the weirdest beginning and ending to a movie I probably have ever seen. The beginning of the film starts out with Christina (Cloris Leachman) running down a street at night barefoot with this odd semi-sexual scream. You can tell that she is running away from somone and is very scared. This is a great example of why it's film noir because it's at night, very dark and she's very scared for some reason. The end of the film is pretty crazy as well. Mike Hammer, the one who picked up Christina tries to figure out where all of it started and he comes to this case that is buckled and fasened. He opens it quickly and gets a burn on his wrist. At the end of the film Velda is has recovered the box and is going to open it. Hammer and Christina are there and know that they have to get out quick because they know something bad is going to happen when she opens it. So, Velda opens it and it's pretty much a box from hell. She's is immediately engulfed in flames and the house starts to burn up. The ending credits show Mike and Christina making it out safe on the beach. The beginning and ending were very odd but made for and all around good film noir.
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