Samuel Fuller's intense vitality and bravura style are immediately revealed inthe surreal opening sequence of The Naked Kiss-a nonpareil cinematicshocker with a bald, half-naked hooker hysterically beating up her pimp.Constance Towers turns in a fine performance as a reformed big-cityprostitute who tries to find a new life in an all-American small town,only to discover the perversity and corruption beneath its bourgeoissurface. Suave Michael Dante's money buys him respectability-at leastfor the first four reels. Michael Goodwin, Naomi Wise