The Naked Kiss

The Naked Kiss 1963, written, produced, and directed by Samuel Fuller.


Samuel Fuller was born in 1911. He got his first job as a teenage crime reporter for the San Diego Sun, and was soon writing short stories and pulp novels like Burn Baby Burn (1935).


He started writing screenplays (Gangs of New York, 1938), but got sidetracked into World War II, where he won a Bronze Star, a Silver Star, and a Purple Heart while fighting for the First Infantry Division in Africa. He came back to Hollywood and directed his first film, I Shot Jesse James, in 1949.


The Naked Kiss, Fuller’s seventeenth film, is the story of Kelly. A girl who starts outside society. Despite her occasional penchant for violence, wno one can not help endorsing all her actions. She’s a woman of two worlds trying to find redemption in a world controlled by men.


After the surprisingly violent opening, Fuller goes just a wee bit overboard to let us know this woman is not what she seems.