Slow Kiss is the product of a three year collaboration between Daniel Sackheim and award-winning, Vanity Fair contributing photographer Patrick Ecclesine. Together they have produced a photographic novel which brings to life Charles Dean’s infamous, black-listed, and ultimately un-produced 1956 noir screenplay in a still narrative form. It was often said of Slow Kiss that it was one of the greatest noir films never made. 

The following is an excerpt from the photographic novel.