Magic Elevator Trick in "KISS ME DEADLY" (1955)
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In Robert Aldrich's classic adaptation of the hardboiled Mickey Spillane novel...
...P.I. Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) and his friend Lt. Pat Murphy (Wesley Addy) walk down a hallway toward the elevator.
Mike pushes the button. They wait for it to arrive, looking up to check the floor indicator.
The door slides open, two passengers step off, and Mike and Pat get in.
Except...there's no elevator. That's the "Magic Elevator" trick.
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This movie has some really impressive shots for the time it was made. One that always came to mind was the rigged camera on the back of Mike’s car as he quickly backs out of a garage. It looks so slick and I’m surprised that we rarely see shots like that anymore.
one of the greatest films ever IMO
Such a cool trick to fool the brain! Thanks for making me smile!😊 Who knew?!😄
Nice one Pop. This was a fantastic movie that I watch about once a year or so.
Thanks! I hadn't seen it for awhile but I just bought the Criterion DVD and have been rewatching it to my heart's content.
Ralph Meeker is THE Mike Hammer. No one else really comes close, not even Stacy Keach or Mickey Spillane himself.
In Bill Warren's Keep Watching the Skies, he remarked that Meeker was great at playing "cocky but not intellectual thugs with a strong violent streak," and that's Mike Hammer in a nutshell. Spillane seemed muzzled when he played his own character, and Keach's interpretation always came across to me as the proverbial smart guy playing dumb, which seldom works.
The only actor whom I thought came close other than Meeker was Darren McGavin on the 50s TV series, and they wouldn't let him get away with anything close to what Meeker got away with. But McGavin seemed to understand the character just like Meeker did. Shame Meeker never reprised the role in another film.
Agree! He's a joy to watch in the role.
Meeker's Hammer is savage and a bit of a sadist and I love it. But Mike's got a heart under it all.
If I ever started a movie club, this would be the first film I'd suggest.
Ralph Meeker was good. Thanks.
The light from the opening elevator could be seen as a foreshadowing of the opening of the radio-active case. I admit I'm probably reading more into this than the filmmaker intended.
Ralph Meeker was great in Kubrick's "Paths of Glory".
The ending of this film is unnerving.
"Help me I'm dying!"
Simple but so effective, I didn't even notice !
i am shocked for one.
Going down?
Pretty effective and realistic for 1955.
I love tricks like this.
I don't think I would have known that if you hadn't mentioned. Interesting.
I became aware of such tricks when Veronica Cartwright talked about the "magic front door trick" at the end of "The Birds." ruclips.net/video/y3mf_8H0v3k/видео.html
@@porflepopnecker4376 June Lockhart once commented about a scene in a Lost in Space episode where Guy Williams and Mark Goddard were going down a hatch to the lower level of the ship. There was no hatch, of course, so she was just watching them bending down to make it LOOK like they were walking down the nonexistent stairs, and everyone was trying SO hard to keep from laughing. Finally, Guy and Mark were reduced to crawling on the studio floor to avoid being seen by the camera, and when the director finally yelled CUT, they exploded in laughter.
Irwin Allen was NOT happy.... :-)
DAMN! YA-GOT-ME-AGAIN! YOU OLD-SO-AND-SO, YOU!!
Hee hee. :)
1955, the year of Kiss Me Deadly's fake elevator & Bela Lugosi's fake octopus death scene. God people could act.
Can you prove there was no elevator? If not, your argument is just hot air.
All the witnesses have mysteriously disappeared.
i like the movie
One of my faves.
@@porflepopnecker4376 cool
But....what's your point??
Magic is real. :)
@@porflepopnecker4376 Real magic is real but fake magic is fake
Well no shyte
"magic" huh? lol...Okaaay
Low budget as fuck.