Private eye Mike Hammer probes his long-lost love's death while seeking their daughter.
Acting
Keach's weathered, wheezing Hammer — pure nicotine-stained charisma.
Production
Gloriously cheap LA locations passing for 'glamorous' 1983.
Director
Gary Nelson
Stacy Keach
Mike Hammer
Tanya Roberts
Velda
Don Stroud
Captain Pat Chambers
Delta Burke
Paula Corey
Tom Atkins
Jack Vance
Jonathan Banks
Janos Saracen
Kent Williams
Lawrence D. Barrington
Lisa Blount
Michelle Jameson
Michelle Phillips
Chris Jameson
Bert Rosario
Duardo
Randi Brooks
Arla
Lee Meredith
Marty
Eddie Egan
Hennessey
Madison Arnold
Conlin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was meant to launch a Mike Hammer TV series; Keach would play Hammer again in 1984's 'The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer' and a syndicated series until his 1997 drug arrest halted production.
Spillane's Hammer was Reagan-era conservative fantasy: brutal, sexual, contemptuous of rights, always right. This adaptation softens him slightly — but only slightly.
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