Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

Cloris Leachman, Marian Carr, Jack Elam, Albert Dekker

A frightened woman is running barefoot on a highway, trying desperately to flag a car. After several cars pass her by, the woman sees another car approaching, and to make sure either the car stops, or she's killed, she stands in the path of the oncoming car. Private Investigator Mike Hammer is at th