DRESSED TO KILL from FILMWAYS PICTURES (1980). It was directed by Brian De Palma and stars Angie Dickinson, Michael Caine and Nancy Allen. The production budget climbed to $6.5 million. It grabbed $31.9 million at the U.S. box office and was considered a hit.
Angie Dickinson claimed that she was hesitant at first to play Kate Miller. She just came off of the successful TV series, "Police Woman" (1974-78). Millions of Americans knew her as Sgt. "Pepper" Anderson. She was also afraid to do the full body nude scenes in the film. The director hired a body-double who was a Penthouse (nude) magazine "Pet" of the month. Dickinson relented because she also wanted to portray Kate who is so different from herself.
"Dressed to Kill" tells the story of a house-wife named Kate Miller. She's sexually frustrated because her husband is "boring" in the bedroom. In a night dream - she is raped by a strange man in front of her husband - in the shower.
Then one day... She flirts with a male stranger at an art museum. Without knowing his name. She gets into a taxi-cab with him. The man gives her what she had always fantasized about. Her screams of pleasure are explosive.
What Kate doesn't know is that she is being followed by a mysterious woman.
I won't give anything away.... Brian De Palma is influenced by Alfred Hitchcok. He copies Hitchcock's camera-style and suspense in this movie. It also involves a brutal murder.
The film received the "X-Rating" by the MPAA. De Palma trimmed off the full frontal of Kate Miller in the shower to get an "R-Rating." The Director's cut adds it back in.
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