The return of mickey spillane s mike hammer 1986 the private eye stacy keach crosses the country tracking a childselling ring with origins in southeast asia. The music from mickey spillanes mike hammer discogs. Mike is asked by a las vegas entertainer to come to vegas. Hammer stories were also featured on television in the series mickey spillanes mike hammer and in madefortv movies. Warner bros resurrects mickey spillanes tough guy mike. Fawcett gold medal books published mickey spillanes novels.
Mustaches run amok throughout mickey spillanes the new mike. Overview of return of mickey spillanes mike hammer, 1986, directed by ray danton, with joseph disante, leo penn, donna snow, at turner classic movies. A week before his death, mickey spillane entrusted his nearly finished manuscript and extensive notes to his frequent collaborator, max allan collins, to complete. Mickey spillanes mike hammer 1984 tv series, starring stacy keach. Stacy keach will return to mike hammer the new york. The mike hammer series is a novel series based on the life of the fictional character named micheal hammer, developed by the famous american author mickey spillane. Mike hammer, the toughest pi of all, draws a seemingly routine assignmentplaying bodyguard to diva rita vance on the eve of her big broadway comeback. The return of mickey spillane s mike hammer 1986 user score.
In addition to the usual cast from the tv series, stacey keach, lindsay bloom, don stroud and kent williams, the film adds mike preston mad max 2 in a prominent role while veteran mickey rooney has a cameo. The return of mickey spillane s mike hammer appears to be the pilot for the 3rd season as evidenced by the dates on it imdb page. Perhaps the studio is testing the waters here, watching sales of this to see if full season sets of the series would be worth the time and money. Mickey spillanes mike hammer character had almost been forgotten in the 1970s.
Mickey spillane s mike hammer 1958 tv series, starring darren mcgavin. Episodes were filmed in black and white and filled a hal. The level of sex and violence in his mike hammer thrillers starting with i, the jury in 1947 broke down longheld taboos and engendered a near hysterical critical backlash. Sep 11, 2012 while i am familiar with the mike hammer character through books and television, i was unaware of his life as a comic strip character.
Stacy keach has starred in three mike hammer series. Double feature, with each movie getting its own disc. But rita is an old flame of hammers, and when their romance is rekindled, the detective finds the actress facing death threats and himself the target of one hit man after another. An almost complete list of both the psychotronic video guide and the encyclopedia. Not to be confused with mickey spillanes mike hammer 198485, the new mike hammer 198687 or mike hammer, private eye 199798, all of which starred stacy keach, this 195860 series instead stars darren mcgavin. Mickey spillanes the new mike hammer the series 1986. This set contains the twentytwo episodes from the only season of the new mike hammer as well as the tv movies the return of mike hammer and mike hammer. Mickey spillanes pi mike hammer made his debut in i, the jury, and set the shocked literary world on its collective ear with its sexandviolence laden story. The complete series tv 19861987 after an enforced absence, stacy keach returns to his role as hammer, mickey spillanes classic private eye character. Mickey spillanes mike hammer wikipedia republished. A narcotics dealer was the nemesis of mike hammer in kiss me deadly. His specialty was tightfisted, sadistic revenge stories, often featuring his alcoholic gumshoe mike hammer and a cast of evildoers who launder money or spout the communist party line. Mickey spillanes mike hammer episodes tv series 1983 1987.
Thanks to the positive reception of the movie and the tenacity of jay bernstein, the series was continued, but this time under the title the new mike hammer. The complete dailies and sundays volume 1 mickey spillane from files of mike hammer spillane, mickey, robbins, ed, gill, joe, robbins, ed on. Though the show is set in new york city, the authentic urban flavor is largely limited to stock establishing shots. With stacy keach, emily rose chance, don stroud, lindsay bloom. Skip martin the music from mickey spillanes mike hammer. Mike hammer is a fictional character featured in a series of hardboiled crime fiction novels by american novelist mickey spillane and later american novelist max allan collins. Mike hammer, the detective character created by mickey spillane. Mickey spillane the hammer the official site mickey. Revised and expanded with 14 new stories, including a turn of the tide, a previously unpublished tale.
Mickey spillanes mike hammer 1958 tv series wikipedia. The return of mickey spillanes mike hammer 1986 the. The return of mickey spillanes mike hammer 1986 and murder takes it all 1988. Legendary detective mike hammer has spent seven years in an alcoholic funk after the supposed death of his secretary, velda. Get premium, high resolution news photos at getty images. The new adventures of mickey spillanes mike hammer. It s not money that s driving the dedicated gumshoe, but a fiery passion for justice and the truth. Mickey spillanes the mike hammer series 1986 dvd all. Mickey spillanes mike hammer character was one of the most watchable 50s series because of the appeal of darren mcgavin. Private eye dvd, 2005, 4disc set at the best online prices at ebay. The return of mickey spillanes mike hammer was directed by ray danton with music by earle hagen. With over 225 million copies of his books sold internationally, some of mickey spillanes most wellknown novels include my gun is quick, vengeance is mine. Nonetheless, spillanes influence has been feltreflections of hammer are visible in nearly every subsequent tough guy of fiction and film, including james bond, dirty. Mickey spillanes mike hammer wikipedia republished wiki 2.
The return of mickey spillanes mike hammer tv movie 1986 imdb. Bruce kessler, stacy keach, ted lange, paul lynch, thomas j. Blackstone audio productions in 2008, stacy keach reprised the role of mike hammer in the first of a series of radiostyle dramas entitled the new adventures of mickey spillanes mike hammer. The gritty, crime fighting detectivecreated by american crime author mickey spillanehas also inspired several feature films and television films. A year later, stacy keach returned to his role as hammer in the madefortv movie the return of mickey spillanes mike hammer, which aired on april 18, 1986. Hammer s unorthodox methods often put him on the wrong side of the law, particularly with his ambitious nemesis, assistant d. Critics savaged spillane, but the book buying public ate it up, turning i, the jury into a best seller and launching hammer as a. Mickey spillanes mike hammer is the first syndicated television series based on spillanes hardboiled private detective mike hammer, played by darren mcgavin. As explained in an excellent forward by max allan collins, we learn of mickey spillane s foray into comics before world war ii, and how the mike hammer dailies came about. The return of mickey spillanes mike hammer 1986 movie. Sony has packaged the two pilot films in a twodisc set clumsily titled mickey spillanes mike hammer. There is a total of 20 novels in the series which are published from 1947 to 2014. The return of mickey spillanes mike hammer 1986 the movie.
In the 1980s, spillane appeared in a string of miller lite beer. Spillane wrote graphic novels about crime fighters. The master of hardboiled crime novels, frank morrison mickey spillane 19182006 was the author of over forty novels. Keach refers to the production style, that is somewhere between an audiobook and radio drama, as a radio novel. The return of mickey spillanes mike hammer 1986 directed by. The result is a thriller as classic as spillanes own i, the jury and as compelling as collinss road to perdition in the midst of a manhattan snowstorm, hammer halts the violent robbery of. The return of mickey spillanes mike hammer 1986 directed.
He first introduced his most famous character, the iconic private detective mike hammer, in i, the jury in 1947. The complete series box set suffer some from their low budgets. The ultimate guide to mickey spillane books, movies and mike. The big apple held stories of struggle, people leaving their neighborhood, rising in society. The return of mickey spillane s mike hammer 1986 tv movie, stacy keach reprises his role as hammer in this pilot for the third season of his hammer tv show aka the new mike hammer. Mickey spillanes mike hammer 19581960, us syndicated series. The return of mickey spillanes mike hammer tv movie 1986. Not to be confused with mickey spillanes mike hammer 1. The return of mickey spillanes mike hammer tv movie 1986 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The return of mickey spillanes mike hammer podbean. The series produced from 1957 to 1959 had a run of 78 episodes over two seasons. The set provides 22 episodes, plus two madefortv movies included as supplemental materials. That time was not as humdrum as people remember before diversity and inclusion.
He is brought back to the land of the living by his old friendly enemy, police lieutenant pat chambers. The return of mickey spillanes mike hammer tv movie 1986 7. With both of us, being big fans of this show, we look at this film and great series, and the performance of stacy keach as mike hammer. A young girl is kidnapped and there is an attempt on the daughter of an wellknown actress. The ultimate guide to mickey spillane books, movies and. Wright, don weis, david hemmings, john herzfeld, david jackson, sigmund neufeld jr. Completely overshadowed by the james bond craze, the twofisted misogynistic tough guy was remembered mostly through tv airings of paddy chayefskys marty, in which martys bronx pal angie pores over pocket books and repeatedly murmurs, gee, that spillane sure can write and that mike.
Mickey spillanes the new mike hammer the series dvd. The return of mickey spillane s mike hammer tv movie 1986 7. Mickey spillanes mike hammer is a crime drama that aired on cbs. Mickey spillanes mike hammer is the title used for two syndicated television series that followed the adventures of fictional private detective mike hammer. Following world war ii, spillane conceived of a comic book character named mike danger, which ended up becoming a detective fiction character named mike hammer. Here for the first time on dvd is the complete 78episode run of the groundbreaking series mickey spillanes mike hammer, featuring the original jazz theme, riff blues and an unforgettable cast of conmen, crooks, killers and femmes fatale played by such notables as angie dickinson, ted knight, barbara bain, marion ross, dick van patten and. Mickey spillane s mike hammer is the first syndicated television series based on spillane s hardboiled private detective mike hammer, played by darren mcgavin. Mike refuses, he is then knocked out and dropped literally into las vegas. When the new mike hammer series was commissioned, it was led off by a television movie, the return of mickey spillanes mike hammer, which appears on disc 7. Mickey spillanes mike hammer 1984 tv series wikipedia. Mickey sppilanes margin for murder 1981, cbs was a 2 hour made for tv movie and was directed by daniel haller with kevin dobson as mike hammer. Mickey spillane, shirley eaton, scott peters, guy kingsley poynter. Stacy keach biography, celebrity facts and awards tv guide. The return of mickey spillanes mike hammer appears to be the pilot for the 3rd season as evidenced by the dates on it imdb page.
The 78 episodes on the 12disc mickey spillanes mike hammer. Feb 26, 2015 this feature is not available right now. The show follows the adventures of mike hammer, the fictitious private detective created by crime novelist mickey spillane, as he hunts down criminals on the mean streets of new york city. If ratings of the television movie are successful enough to warrant a fullscale renewal. The new mike hammer is the follow up to a previous season starring keach that was derailed when he was sentenced to 9 months prison for smuggling drugs ah, the 80s. Oct 19, 2012 warner bros resurrects mickey spillanes tough guy mike hammer in feature deal. Spillane was also an occasional actor, once even playing hammer himself. Mickey spillanes mike hammer tv intro 1984 youtube. A circus was used as a setting in the girl hunters.
Mike hammer sunday page by mickey spillane from 9271953. Full movie of mickey spillane playing his own mike. After two attempts to kidnap a little girl mike hammer is hired to protect her. Spillanes classic, toughasnails private eye, mike hammer stacy keach, takes to the streets of modern day new york city. Full movie of mickey spillane playing his own mike hammer in the girl hunters, wb picks up rights to character. Mickey spillanes mike hammer, with stacy keach in the title role, is a television series that originally aired on cbs from january 28, 1984 to january 12, 1985. Mike hammer was the central crime fighter in a series of novels. Nonetheless, spillanes influence has been feltreflections of hammer are visible in nearly every subsequent. Mickey spillanes mike hammer the complete series 12dvd.
More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally. Its not money thats driving the dedicated gumshoe, but a fiery passion for justice and the truth. There are no bigname stars, the director has never been mentioned in the. Mickey spillane mike hammer james leavey connections. Spillane s classic, toughasnails private eye, mike hammer stacy keach, takes to the streets of modern day new york city. Watch mickey spillane s mike hammer season 2, episode 15 the return of mickey spillane s mike hammer. In this april 1986 tv movie, a young girl is kidnapped and there is an attempt on the daughter of a wellknown actress, after which the kidnapper then turns up dead. Met his third wife, malgosia, when she appeared alongside him in the 1986 tv movie the return of mickey spillanes mike hammer. Awards 1985, golden globe best performance by an actor in a. In the mid20th century, mickey spillane was the sensation of not just mystery fiction but publishing itself.
Hammers unorthodox methods often put him on the wrong side of the law, particularly with his ambitious nemesis, assistant d. Mickey spillane s mike hammer the night i died max allan collins marcelo salaza mickey spillane s mike. March 9, 1918 july 17, 2006, better known as mickey spillane, was an american crime novelist, whose stories often feature his signature detective character, mike hammer. The return of mickey spillanes mike hammer 1986 tv movie, stacy keach reprises his role as hammer in this pilot for the third season of his hammer tv show aka the new mike hammer. Mickey spillanes mike hammer 1958 tv series wikimili.
Mickey spillane s mike hammer 1984 tv series, starring stacy keach. The complete dailies and sundays volume 1 mickey spillane from files of mike hammer. Hey gang, this week stuart and john look at the pilot movie, of the return of the mike hammer series the return of mickey spillane s mike hammer. Hammer is hired to protect the girl and travels to. Press kit the return of mickey spillanes mike hammer 1986 stacy keach press kit the. The return of mickey spillane s mike hammer tv movie 1986 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
This is the opening from mickey spillanes mike hammer, the 19841985 cbs tv series starring stacy keach as spillanes extrahardboiled. Return of mickey spillanes mike hammer 1986 overview. Despite obviously utilizing older video transfers, the release of mickey spillanes mike hammer the complete series is especially welcome. Mickey spillanes mike hammer 1958 tv series, starring darren mcgavin.
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