Mickey Spillane


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Kiss Me Deadly (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Why'd You Let It Die? Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker), on a tip from a building super (Silvio Minciotti), pays a visit to spacey Lily (Gaby Rodgers), sometime roommate of the murdered girl, just off Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood, in Robert Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly, 1955.
Kiss Me Deadly (1955) -- (Movie Clip) He's A Bedroom Dick Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer leaves the hospital with gal-Friday Velda (Maxine Cooper), weeks after the non-accident that killed his hitcher, James Seay apprehending and Robert Cornthwaite interrogating for the FBI, Wesley Addy his cop pal Pat, in Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly, 1955.
Kiss Me Deadly (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Something Big Classical music and skimpy workout gear for assistant Velda (Maxine Cooper) as Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) arrives at the office with ideas about the torture-murder of the girl he found on the highway, in Robert Aldrich's film of the Mickey Spillane novel, Kiss Me Deadly, 1955.
Kiss Me Deadly (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Thumb's Not Good Enough? That's Cloris Leachman barefoot on the highway in a trenchcoat, Ralph Meeker as Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer at the wheel of his Jaguar XK-20, Nat Cole's "Rather Have The Blues" on the radio, in the famous opening of Robert Aldrich's, Kiss Me Deadly, 1955.
Kiss Me Deadly (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Popcorn Ralph Meeker (as Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer) makes a buy from a street vendor (on Rampart Blvd. near downtown Los Angeles), already knowing he's being tailed by a goon (Paul Richards), in Robert Aldrich's cold-war crime thriller Kiss Me Deadly, 1955.
Girl Hunters, The (1963) -- (Movie Clip) I Never Hit Dames Mickey Spillane, playing his own detective Mike Hammer, drops in on the Senator's dishy widow Laura (Shirley Eaton, soon to appear in Goldfinger), inquiring about the murder, in The Girl Hunters, 1963.
Girl Hunters, The (1963) -- (Movie Clip) She's On The List Coming off a seven-year bender brought on by the death of his girl-Friday "Velda," detective Mike Hammer (played by his creator Mickey Spillane) ruminates, then consults with federal agent Rickerby (Lloyd Nolan), in The Girl Hunters, 1963.
Girl Hunters, The (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Get The Dragon! Cop Pat (Scott Peters) and Doc (Guy Kingsley Poynter) insist that drying-out detective Mike Hammer (played by his creator, Mickey Spillane) interview mortally wounded Cole (Murray Kash), in The Girl Hunters, 1963.
My Gun Is Quick -- (Movie Clip) It Was No Accident Investigating the death of a girl he barely knew, Mike Hammer (Robert Bray) introduces himself to stripper Maria (Gina Core), in My Gun Is Quick, 1957, from the Mickey Spillane novel.
My Gun Is Quick -- (Movie Clip) You Know How I Hate Dames First scene for the ever-present Velda (Pamela Duncan), assistant to grumpy detective Mike Hammer (Robert Bray), at the office for a shave and business review, in Mickey Spillane's My Gun Is Quick, 1957.
My Gun Is Quick -- (Movie Clip) Lay Off, Greaseball! Opening scene an all-night diner, Mike Hammer (Robert Bray) has befriended streetwalker "Red" (Jan Chaney), whose pimp (Charles Boaz) walks into trouble, in My Gun Is Quick, 1957, from the Mickey Spillane novel.

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