
Legendary detective Mike Hammer has spent seven years in an alcoholic funk after the supposed death of his secretary, Velda. He is brought back to the land of the living by his old friendly enemy, police lieutenant Pat Chambers.... (Full plot summary below)
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Legendary detective Mike Hammer has spent seven years in an alcoholic funk after the supposed death of his secretary, Velda. He is brought back to the land of the living by his old friendly enemy, police lieutenant Pat Chambers.
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzA miscast Spillane manages to stumble over his own lame dialogue. |
| User ReviewClay BTimeless except for the fight scene. While I love Keach in the later incarnation of Mike Hammer - Spillane is quite believable in this role and this classic style mystery is outstanding. The rest of the cast is great, as is the screenplay. |
| User ReviewAllan CMickey Spillane plays his famous PI creation, Mike Hammer. In this film Hammer has hit a low point and drowning himself in alcohol after his secretary Velda's death. Hammer is sobered up by his frenemy Pat Chambers who wants him to talk to a dying federal agent who will only talk with Hammer, which then sets Hammer off on a investigation involving dirty commies and sexy Shirley Eaton (best know as the girl in "Goldfinger" who is killed by being painted in gold). Spillane is passable, but he's not a real actor and I can't help comparing him to the hard edge that Ralph Meeker brought to his characterization of Hammer in the classic "Kiss Me Deadly." Despite Spillane's unspectacular acting, he did provide some moments of his trademark sharp dialogue. This one is more of a curio than a classic hard boiled detective film. |
| User ReviewArt SPretty tepid outing for Mickey Spiallane's classic P.I. Mike Hammer, notable mostly for the fact that the author plays the character himself, becoming one of the film's major problems, his performance a lump at the center of it. Kenneth Talbot's moody black and white photography and Shirley Eaton in a bikini for half the film are certainly nice to look at, but the acting is lackluster and the story plodding, never building up the necessary pulp energy to be really entertaining. Philip Green's bombastic score is sometimes effective, sometimes overbearing. |
| User ReviewAllen REasily the strangest Mike Hammer film yet. From the idea of the character's creator playing the role, to the use of an entire core Hammer-verse character as a MacGuffin, there's some wildly interesting choices being made here on the part of director Roy Rowland, unfortunately they all backfire and the result is a trainwreck of the worst variety - a dull one. It's worth sitting through if you're a Hammer or hard-boiled devotee just to get to the brutal finale which, admittedly, feels out of place considering how cynically pedestrian the prior 90 minute come across. |