“Samuel Fuller's...intense vitality and bravura style are immediately revealed in the surreal opening sequence of The Naked Kiss - a nonpareil cinematic shocker with a bald, half-naked hooker hysterically beating up her pimp. Constance Towers turns in a fine performance as a reformed, big-city prostitute who tries to find a new life in an all-American small town, only to discover the perversity and corruption beneath its bourgeois surface. Michael Dante plays a suave child-molester whose money buys him respectability - at least for the first four reels.” --Michael Goodwin and Naomi Wise.
“America: Fuller's constant theme.... The Naked Kiss is an exposé. It destroys the myth of the small town idyll.....” --Peter Wollen