Admirable film.

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The dangers of prostitution as Kelly teaches us "You will end up hating all men. You'll become a social problem, a medical problem and a mental problem. And a despicable excuse for woman." Kelly is an ex-prostitute who decides to live a straight life and gets a job in a hospital working with sick kids - but there is more to it than she bargains for.The good scene is the opening - after that it's a boring story of Kelly who meets a police man that tries to get her to work for Candy (the owner of a prostitution house). The story picks back up towards the end when Kelly gets weird boyfriend whom she ends up killing with a telephone receiver when she finds out he's a sick-o pervert with children. Her police friend is on the case but doesn't believe her story - the odds are stacked against her as her old pimp is called in to talk to the police about her character - he lies the police believe the pimp in the beginning. Even a nurse steps in and taints Kelly's character. Can Kelly get out of this? 3/10

Finally found a way to review this amazing film. I first saw this feature on Cable television as it was making its rounds and eventually came to Turner Classic Movies. People exclaim about the opening sequence to this neo-noir film directed by Sam Fuller, but I find that particular scene not nearly as impressive as Constance Towers' gravitas as a call girl who decides to reform herself. I personally don't think anyone else in that role would have carried quite the impact that Ms. Towers displays throughout the course of the narrative. This was an Oscar worthy performance plain and simple.Others more knowledgeable about Sam Fuller's body of work have made excellent observations and evaluations. Therefore I will not tread there. I will just speak of the associations and ideas that come to me as I think of this film.I remember once dropping our parents off at the Motor City Casino to park our car. There was a man standing at the front entrance with his valet and waiting for his Mercedes to cruise into sight before him. He looked prosperous and distinguished. Less than ten or fifteen feet away was another man wearing a long coat the same as our successful man of means. The two could have been brothers. The only difference was that the latter was rooting through a garbage receptacle for cans and anything else he could pick free from the garbage.The thing that struck me was how you could have made the two men switch places and each would have seemed perfectly suited to their roles in life and that space. Measuring them with your intuition and sixth sense, you could not help but gauge that each man was possessed of more or less the same native intelligence and potential.Therefore, the question that caught me curiously by the coat-tails was this; why was it that the one was waiting on his Mercedes and the other was scrounging around through garbage for whatever he could find?At work there is an older woman there who services the vehicles that come to the pumps from the Return Canopy after being rented to out of towners. She strikes you as a woman of strong character and resembles Barbara Bush. Sometimes I jokingly call her Martha Washington. Once again, were she to switch places with Barbara Bush I don't think she would miss a beat. It is just a sense that you get about her.There is something like that going on in this film, THE NAKED KISS.Constance Towers plays a high priced call girl, but she comes across as a woman who was destined for more and somehow through circumstances and bad choices wound up not fulfilling her true potential. Whenever she strikes someone in a conflict in the film she brings a moral weight and force to her blows that is just shy of the wrath of Moses or Christ chasing out the money changers. That's what is fascinating about this film to me. At its center you have a Whore who exerts and exercises more moral authority than any other character in the narrative.This is a novel concept and yet it doesn't seem perverse or farcical, heavy-handed or played for laughs. The character Kelly played by Ms. Towers comes across as everything she appears to be to the strangers of the small town where she makes good her escape. At times the poised socialite, loving nurse and educator, or vengeful mother figure to her young friend, she seems authentic in all these roles. You even come to believe that her career as a call girl has made her a keen observer and judge of human nature!When I think of this film, SHANE comes to mind. Here again is a person attempting to escape the consequences of their past and hoping to reinvent themselves. She helps those in her community more than she is helped and in the end moves on because the moral tenor of the environment is just not up to her standards.I find this a dark brilliant twist to the fairy tales of Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. I have read that Sam Fuller wanted to put a speech at the end of the film where Kelly tells those in the town what she thinks of them and berates them for their veneer of civility and social propriety. Actually, I would have ended the film somewhat sooner, during her last encounter with J. L. Grant, ably played by Michael Dante, to convey the true tragedy of a golden opportunity that turned out to be the tawdry goods of a community illusion.

The Naked Kiss was just alright to me. I'm not going to rehash the whole plot, but it is basically about the story of a female prostitute, named Kelly, who is trying to clean up her life and falls in love with Grant. Grant is the love her life, but ends up also being one of the biggest problems of her life. I won't say anything more about what happens, but you definitely have to watch it to really get the feel of and understand the story. Besides the plot the movie, it is filmed fairly well and has the lighting of the average film noir. Overall, I don't know that I would recommend this movie, but it is still a fairly interesting movie.

The Naked Kiss which was made in 1964 is a classic movie based on drama, crime and romance. The way the story is told through many different types of societal "taboo's" is wonderfully brilliant. You are not watching this film and the whole time thinking what a terrible person the main character is. Instead there is a sense of wanted her to succeed. This film generated in the era of Hollywood's decline is a perfect example of other movies accosted with his time. The idea of prostitution, murder and another unforeseen things is expressed throughout the entire movie. The authors use of a film noir type drama is really pulled around this movie. This movie can also be seen as a great feminist movement. The men in the film are shown as people who deal with the same issues but are allowed to talk about it more openly due to the mere fact that they are men. The women in this movie are portrayed as strong while also dealing with the crippling issues that life throws at an individual from time to time. Overall this movie is a must see and really gets down to the nitty gritty of what life is really like for many.