Shot on a shoestring and conceived as an indictment of American bourgeois hypocrisy, The Naked Kiss is a bombastic, idiosyncratic but wholly original hybrid—the B-movie as social critique. A reformed hooker finds renewed purpose as a small-town orthopedic nurse. Although courting the dashing local philanthropist promises to cement her integration into mainstream society, but her romantic fantasy is dashed in a shocking plot twist.
35mm, b/w, 93 min. Production: F&F Productions. Distribution: Allied Artists. Producer: Samuel Fuller. Director: Samuel Fuller. Screenwriter: Samuel Fuller. Cinematographer: Stanley Cortez. Editor: Jerome Thoms. Composer: Paul Dunlap. With: Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante, Virginia Grey, Patsy Kelly.
