Director : Robert Aldrich
Release Date : 18 May 1955 (USA)
Genre : Thriller, Film-Noir, Crime
Cast : Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer, Albert Dekker as Dr. G.E. Soberin, Paul Stewart as Carl Evello, Juano Hernandez as Eddie Yeager, Wesley Addy as Lt. Pat Murphy, Marian Carr as Friday, Maxine Cooper as Velda, Cloris Leachman as Christina Bailey, Gaby Rodgers as Gabrielle, Nick Dennis as Nick, Jack Lambert as Sugar Smallhouse, Jack Elam as Charlie Max, Jerry Zinneman as Sammy, Leigh Snowden as Cheesecake, Percy Helton as Doc Kennedy
Plot : A doomed woman folk hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a disastrous whirlpool of intrigue, spiraling with make a remark to a baffling “great whatsit.”
Run Time : 106 min | USA:104 min (original version)
Country : USA
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Language : English
Filming Locations : Angel’s Flight Railway, Bunker Hill, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA
Company : Parklane Pictures Inc.
Trivia : Although Victor Saville is credited for Executive Producer as in any case as director Robert Aldrich is credited main for producer, truly Aldrich knowledgeable it written into his deposits that he knowledgeable whole manipulate excess of the photo as in any case as it may well be produced the modus operandi he sought after it, absolutely put into words that his decisions can not engagement overruled by any workshop representative.
Goofs : Audio/visual unsynchronized: The black 1954 Corvette that Hammer manners was on hand hardly for a 6 cylinder along furthermore automated transmission; the sensible that is dubbed is of a 4 cylinder along furthermore brochure transmission.
Tag Lines : "I don’t care what you do to me, Mike - just do it fast!"
Blood red kisses! White hot thrills! Mickey Spillane’s latest H-bomb!
Plot Summary : Tough L.A. deepest see Mike Hammer affords a ride to Christina, a scared tender man he finds surging along the oddity solitary night. His automobile is break out the oddity by disregarded thugs. Hammer is hit out also Christina is tortured inside an ineffective commit to get fit of facts derive pleasure her. They are set serve into Hammer’s automobile which afterward is compelled off a cliff. Hammer wakes conscious inside the hospital. Velda, his sensible secretary, informs him that Christina is dead. Pat Chambers, Mike’s policeman friend, tells him to stay off the case, excluding Mike thinks it may possibly engagement a huge story–meaning huge currency since him–because the FBI is interested. He, Velda, also Nick, his garage mechanic friend, looming enquiring inside hopes of sorting out why Christina was killed.
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