Mickey Spillane plays his own creation, street-thug-turned-PI Mike Hammer, in this 1963 adaptation of his novel. The film opens with Hammer on the downside of a years-long bender, scooped out of the gutter by a bitter cop intent on prying information from a dying man. Inspired to clean up his act by the secrets he hears, Hammer hits the streets on a personal crusade to find the love of his life. Future Bond girl Shirley Eaton costars as a glamorous society widow who goes slumming with Hammer.--Sean Axmaker
Cast
Crew
Roy Rowland
Director, Screenplay
Mickey Spillane
Screenplay, Novel
Robert Fellows
Screenplay, Producer
Sidney Stone
Editor
Kenneth Talbot
Director of Photography
Rene Coke
Costume Design
Dan Millstein
Costume Design
Sidney Turner
Makeup Artist
Fred Turtle
Sound Designer
Jim Roddan
Sound Editor
Gerry Turner
Sound Recordist
Hugh Strain
Sound Recordist
Philip Green
Music
Denis Johnson
Production Manager
Tony Inglis
Art Direction
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