Kiss Me Deadly
Robert Aldrich was an assistant director on "Body and Soul", "Chase", and "Of Men and Music". He asked Luciano to edit the 1954 film "World for Ransom", which was the first film he produced and directed. Joseph F. Biroc was the cinematographer, and Frank De Vol composed the music. Luciano, Biroc, and De Vol became Aldrich's "informal repertory company" for the next two decades. In 1955 Luciano edited Aldrich's "Kiss Me Deadly", which is an important film noir that is now in the National Film Registry. Luciano edited almost all of Aldrich's films that followed "Kiss Me Deadly", including three in the following year.