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6 this week. Create a new list. List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. 15 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Kiss Me Deadly. 1955 1h 46m Approved. 7.5 (22K) Rate. A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit".
The New Mike Hammer: Created by Larry Brody. With Stacy Keach, Lindsay Bloom, Don Stroud, Kent Williams. The cases of Mickey Spillane's classic private eye character.
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- Staring from Brooklyn
- Mickey Spillane Writing and Acting Career
- Conversion and Break from Writing
- Jehovah’s Witnesses Effect
- Mickey Start Writing Again!
- Girl Hunters
- Mickey Spillane Later in His Life
- 1990s and A Real Murder Case
- Death and Legacy
- Mickey Spillane Novels Including Mike Hammer Books
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Frank Morrison Spillane was born in 1918 to a Presbyterian mother and Irish Catholic father who supported the family with a job as a bartender. Because everyone called him Mickey from his childhood, the name got stuck with him. He graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn in 1935 and held down a variety of ...
Spillane’s first Mike Hammer story, I, the Jury, took him just two weeks to write and was published in 1947. Critics were merciless in their reviews of the violence-laden tale of a war veteran who learns that his old combat buddy has been slain and sets out to avenge the death. It was published in hardcover and sold a respectable number of copies, ...
Spillane went on to produce several more titles in the series, and at one point was the best-selling fiction writer in the United States. In 1952, however, he converted to the Jehovah’s Witness faith, and did not write any more Hammer novels for the next nine years. Although he had been christened by his mother as Presbyterian and his father as Cat...
Spillane’s reputation and style of writing is completely against the moral standards of the religion, and would have been considered highly unacceptable. Spillane admitted as much in a 1952 Life Magazine interview where he said, “There are more books on the way, but they won’t contain the things that bolster the excuses for the moral breakdown of t...
Finally, in 1961 Mickey began writing again, with The Deep, which many considered one of his best Hammer novels. Although some criticized the novel as “nasty”, others felt that all the books he wrote subsequent to his religious conversion lacked the sadistic bite and sexual frankness of his previous work. Regardless, his popularity had still not ab...
In the 1963 film version of the Girl Hunters, Spillane himself played the lead role of Hammer, one of the very few times in history where an author has portrayed his own literary character in a film. Girl Hunters also featured Lloyd Nolan and Bond girl Shirley Eaton. Mickey Spillane took another break from writing novels between 1973 and 1989, alth...
In 1974 Spillane appeared in the television series Columbo, playing the part of a writer who is murdered. He was well-known and recognizable as both a writer and actor, and he took advantage of that. Between 1973 and 1988 he appeared in a series of more than 100 Miller Lite beer commercials, wearing a trench coat and fedora in a parody of his own t...
In the mid-1990s, Spillane and his wife, Jane, became involved in a real-life murder case. An 18-year-old high school student, Johnnie Kenneth Register, was found guilty of raping and murdering his girlfriend, Crystal Faye Todd, in 1991. The Spillanes interviewed Register and came to the conclusion that he was incapable of having committed the murd...
Mickey continued to write well into his 80s. On July 17, 2006, Mickey Spillane died of pancreatic cancer at age 88, surrounded by his family at his home in Murrells Inlet. He is survived by his third wife, Jane, children Caroline, Kathy, Michael, and Ward, stepchildren Britt, Lisa and Mabry, 10 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. In the week...
I, the Jury (1947; Mike Hammer) My Gun Is Quick (1950; also Mike Hammer) Vengeance Is Mine! (1950; also a Mike Hammer novel) The Big Kill (1951, another story which also features Mike Hammer) The Long Wait (1951) One Lonely Night (1951; Mike Hammer) Kiss Me, Deadly (1952; another story also featuring Mike Hammer) The Deep (1961) The Girl Hunters (1...
The show follows the adventures of Mike Hammer, the private detective created by crime novelist Mickey Spillane, as he works to solve cases, often involving murder. A recurring plot line throughout the show focuses on the murder of someone to whom the protagonist was close, resulting in Hammer seeking out revenge.
Jul 30, 2021 · Stacy Keach starred as novelist Mickey Spillane's prototypical hard-boiled detective, Mike Hammer, in this 1984-1987 CBS series. Set in the '80s, though with a distinctly 1940s atmosphere, the neo-film noir series typically followed the rumpled Hammer's investigation into the murder of a close friend or associate and featured an array of ...
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Play all. Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer (later entitled The New Mike Hammer), with Stacy Keach in the title role, is the American crime drama series that originally ai...
Murder Me, Murder You is a 1983 American made-for-television mystery film starring Stacy Keach as Mickey Spillane 's iconic hardboiled private detective Mike Hammer. The film was a follow-up to another television film first aired in 1981, Margin for Murder, in which the fictitious gumshoe was portrayed by Kevin Dobson.
