This uranium-enriched noir takes the genre about as far down the road of brutality and cultural parody as is possible. Ralph Meeker plays private eye Mike Hammer as a romping, amoral walking id in this overheated tale of intrigue, sex and nuclear secrets. A direct influence on everyone from Alex Cox to Quentin Tarantino to Ana Lily Amirpour. You’ve never seen the paranoid ’50s like this before.