Kiss Me Deadly.

Mike Hammer is a tough, Los Angeles-based private investigator who is almost as brutal as the crooks he chases. Mike and his assistant/secretary/lover Velda (Maxine Cooper) usually work on "penny-ante divorce cases" One evening on a lonely country road, Hammer gives a ride to Christina (Cloris Leachman), an attractive hitchhiker wearing nothing but a trench coat. Thugs waylay them, and Hammer awakens in some unknown location where he hears Christina's screaming and being tortured to death.