![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In particular, Aldrich drew attention to the script’s having removed “the narcotics complication” that the PCA had found most troublesome in their initial comments on the “problems inherent in the project in relation to securing Code approval.” “Being reasonably well aware of the Code and its interpretation,” Aldrich later wrote, “we have also avoided any direct conflict with the Code Administration.” Then he hesitated. Bezzerides had made in the script’s source material, the Mickey Spillane novel Kiss Me, Deadly, published the previous year. In an accompanying letter to PCA official Albert Van Schmus, Aldrich described the changes he and scriptwriter A. In early November 1954, Robert Aldrich submitted a draft script of Kiss Me Deadly(USA 1955) to the Production Code Administration (PCA). To the critic the work of art is simply a suggestion for a new work of his own, that need not necessarily bear any obvious resemblance to the thing it criticises. Hardboiled private eye meller from the Mickey Spillane pen, featuring blood, action and sex for exploitable b.o. ![]()
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