Editing Kiss Me Deadly (section)

===Revised ending===
The original ending of the American release of the film shows Hammer and Velda escaping from the burning house, staggering into the ocean as the words "The End" come over them on the screen. Sometime after its first release, the ending was altered on the film's negative, removing 82 seconds of footage showing the escape, and instead superimposing "The End" over the burning house. This implied that Hammer and Velda perished in the blaze, which some have interpreted as an apocalyptic ending.<ref name=revised>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/1997/06/27/revised-ending-kiss-me-deadly/|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=June 27, 1997|title=The revised ending of ''Kiss Me Deadly''|url-status=live|author=Poland, David|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200515050135/https://ew.com/article/1997/06/27/revised-ending-kiss-me-deadly/|archive-date=May 15, 2020}}</ref> In 1997, the original ending was restored after the missing footage was discovered in the vaults of the Directors Guild by [[Glenn Erickson]].<ref name=revised/>