Mickey Spillane

What else is there to say about a man whose books sold in more than 160 million copies?!? Many respected critics tried to undermine both Spillane and the character he created; Mike Hammer. But, Mike Hammer will forever remain as one of my favorite heroes and I'll always gladly go back to Spillanes books. Everything began with "I the Jury". Book that was written in only six days completely influenced my taste in books for the following ten years.

BOOKS

• I, the Jury (1947)
• My Gun is Quick (1950)
• Vengeance is Mine (1950)
• The Big Kill (1951)
• One Lonely Night (1951)
• Kiss Me, Deadly (1952)
• The Girl Hunters (1962)
• The Snake (1964)
• The Twisted Thing (1966)
• The Body Lovers (1967)
• Survival...Zero (1970)
• The Killing Man (1989)
• Black Alley (1996)...

STORIES

• "The Night I Died" (1953; originally an unproduced radio play, tidied up and presented as a short story by Max Allan Collins in 1998's Private Eyes, edited by Spillane and Collins)
• "The Screen Test of Mike Hammer" (July 1955, Male; 1995, Hard-Boiled)
• "The Killing Man" (December 1989, Playboy; a condensation of the novel)

FILM

• I, THE JURY
  (1953, Parklane Productions)
  Screenplay by Harry Essex
  Based on the novel by Mickey Spillane
  Directed by Harry Essex
  Starring Biff Elliot as MIKE HAMMER
  Also starring Elisha Cook Jr.
  
• KISS ME DEADLY
  (1955, Parklane Productions)
  Screenplay by A.I. Bezzerides
  Based on the novel by Mickey Spillane
  Directed by Robert Aldrich
  Produced by Robert Aldrich
  Starring Ralph Meeker as MIKE HAMMER
  and Maxine Cooper as Velda
  
• MY GUN IS QUICK
  (1957)
  Written by Richard Collins and Richard Powell
  Screenstory by Richard Powell
  Based on the novel by Mickey Spillane
  Directed by George A. White and Phil Victor
  Starring Robert Bray as MIKE HAMMER
  .
• THE GIRL HUNTERS
  (1963)
  Written by Mickey Spillane, Roy Rowland and Robert Fellows
  Based on the novel by Mickey Spillane
  Directed by Roy Rowland
  Starring Mickey Spillane as MIKE HAMMER
  
• I, THE JURY
  (1982, Warner Brothers)
  Written by Larry Cohen
  Based on the novel by Mickey Spillane
  Directed by Richard Heffron
  Starring Armand Assante as MIKE HAMMER
  Also starring Barbara Carrera, Alan King
  .
• MIKE HAMMER'S MICKEY SPILLANE
  (1998 documentary)
  Written and directed by Max Allan Collins
  It made its debut at Noir in Festival in Courmayeur, Italy in 1998.

TELEVISION

• MICKEY SPILLANE'S MIKE HAMMER
  (1958-1960, US Syndicated series)
  78 episodes
  Writers: Frank Kane
  Starring Darrin McGavin as MIKE HAMMER
  .
• MICKEY SPILLANE'S MARGIN FOR MURDER
  (1981, CBS TVM)
  Written by Calvin Clements, Jr.
  Story by Alex Lucas
  Directed by Daniel Haller
  Produced by Alex Lucas
  Starring Kevin Dobson as MIKE HAMMER
  Writer Calvin Clements, Jr. was nominated for a 1981 Edgar for this one.
  .
• MICKEY SPILLANE'S MURDER ME, MURDER YOU
  (1983, CBS TVM)
  Written by Bill Stratton
  Directed by Gary Nelson
  Starring Stacy Keach as MIKE HAMMER
  .
• MICKEY SPILLANE'S MIKE HAMMER
  (1984-1985, CBS series)
  22 60-minute episodes
  Based upon charactors created by Mickey Spillane
  Writers: Bill Froehlich, Mark Lisson, Frank Abatemarco, Joe Gores, Joe Gunn, B.W. Sandefur, Stephen Downing, Larry Gross, George Lee Marshall, B.W. Sanderfur, Joe Viola, Ed Scharlach, Stephen Kandel, Marvin Paul Kupfer, Paul Bernbaum, Jack B. Sowards, Chester Krumholz
  Directors: Leo Penn, Paul Krasny, Bernard Kowalski, James Frawley, Michael Preece, Arnold Laven, Sy Salkowitz, Russ Mayberry, Christian I. Nyby II, Sy Salkowitz, Ray Danton, Jon Anderson, Paul Stanley
  Executive Script Consultant: Ed Scharlach
  Executive Story Consultant: Stephen Kandel
  Creative Consultant: B.W. Sandefer
  Produced by Bob Singer, Daniel H. Blatt
  Co-Producer: Frank Abatemarco
  Executive Producer: Jay Bernstein
  Music by Earle Hagen
  Theme: "Harlem Nocturne" by Earle Hagen
  Starring Stacy Keach as MIKE HAMMER
  with Lindsay Bloom as Velda
  Don Stroud as Captain Pat Chambers
  Also starring Kent Williams, Danny Goldman, Lee Benton, Ben Powers, Eddie Barth, Eddie Egan , Donna Denton
  Guest Stars: Barbara Stock, Tracy Scoggins, Tom Hallick, Keye Luke, Michael Constantine, Robert Costanzo, Abe Vigoda, Delta Burke, Sharon Stone, Barbara Bain, Shannon Tweed, Jeff Conaway, Stepfanie Kramer, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Ray Liotta, Barbi Benton, Lou Ferrigno, Michael Ironside, Janine Turner, Dick Van Patten, Susan Strasberg, Henry Gibson, Shanna Reed, Susan Anton, Barbra Horan, George Murdock, Allan Miller, Stephen Elliott, Steven Keats, John Patterson
  ..

• "24 Carat Dead"
• "Hot Ice"
• "Seven Dead Eyes"
• "Vickie's Song"
• "Shots in the Dark"
• "Dead on a Dime"
• "Sex Trap"
• "Negative Image"
• "The Perfect Twenty"
• "Satan, Cyanide and Murder"
• "Torch Song"
• "Too Young to Die"
• "Kill Devil"
• "Catfight"
• "Warpath"
• "Bonecrunch"
• "The Deadly Prey"
• "Dead Card Down"
• "Death in the Family"
• "Cold Target"
• "A Bullet for Benny"
• "Firestorm"
• "Deadly Reunion"..
  .

• THE NEW MIKE HAMMER
  A continuation of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, under a new title
  (1986-1987, CBS series)
  22 60-minute episodes
  Based upon charactors created by Mickey Spillane
  Writers: Herman Miller, Fred Freiberger, Duke Sandefur, B. W. Sandefur, Arthur Ginsberg, Howard Berk, Ray Danton, Ed Scharlach, S. S. Schweitzer, Jay Bernstein, Howard Berk, Judy Burns, Nancy Ann Miller, James Schmerer, Don Balluck, Edward DiLorenzo, Paul Bentley Diamond, Stephen Lord, Gregory S. Dinallo, E. Nick Alexander
  Directors: Ray Danton, Bruce Kessler, Don Weis, Sig Neufeld, David Hemmings, John Herzfeld, Marc Daniels, Jon Andersen, David Jackson, Frank Beascoechea, Thomas J. Wright, Paul M. Lynch, Chuck Braverman, Stacy Keach, Ted Lange, Jay Bernstein
• Starring Stacy Keach as MIKE HAMMER
  with Lindsay Bloom as Velda
  Don Stroud as Captain Pat Chambers
  Guest stars: Luca Bercovici, Bill Macy, Barbara Bosson, Lyle Waggoner, Randi Brooks, Julianna McCarthy, Cornel Wilde, Robyn Douglass, Leslie Wing, Peter Iacangelo, John S. Ragin, Michael Delano, Ernie Hudson, Isabel Sanford, George Benson, Jack Carter, Arte Johnson, Jeff Conaway, Malgosia Keach, Bo Hopkins, Theodore Bikel, Foster Brooks, Bernie Kopell, Karen Valentine, Barbara Billingsley, Micky Dolenz, Claude Akins, Peter Scolari, Barbara Carrera, Dennis Cole, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Barbara Stock, Greg Evigan, Emma Samms.

• "Deirdre"
• "Dead Pigeon"
• "Golden Lady"
• "Mike's Baby"
• "To Kill A Friend"
• "Witness for the Prosecution"
• "Harlem Nocture"
• "Murder In The Cards"
• "Requiem For Billy"
• "Little Miss Murder"
• "Kill John Doe"
• "Elegy For A Tramp"
• "Body Shot"
• "Who Killed Sister Lorna?"
• "Deadly Collection"
• "Green Blizzard"
• "The Last Laugh"
• "Lady Killer"
• "Mike Gets Married"
• "A Blinding Fear"
• "Green Lipstick"
• "A Face In The Night"
  

• COME DIE WITH ME
  (AKA DEADER THAN EVER)
  Written by John Lau
  Starring Rob Estes as MIKE HAMMER
  and Pamela Anderson as Velda
  .
• Title unknown-MIKE HAMMER TELEVISION MOVIE
  Written by John Lau
  Starring Rob Estes as MIKE HAMMER
  and Pamela Anderson as Velda
  .
• MIKE HAMMER-PRIVATE EYE
  (1997, syndicated series)
  Writers: Jennifer Boller
  Executive Producer: Jay Bernstein
  Starring Stacy Keach as MIKE HAMMER

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