Kiss Me Deadly 1955

Directed by Robert Aldrich | Starring: Cloris Leachman, Jack Lambert, Jack Elam, Strother Martin

One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.