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===Films=== ====Feature films==== [[File:The Girl Hunters (1963 film) DVD boxart.jpg|thumb|DVD cover of ''The Girl Hunters'']] *''[[I, the Jury (1953 film)|I, the Jury]]'' ([[United Artists]], 1953), filmed in 3-D starring [[Biff Elliot]] as Mike Hammer. *''[[Kiss Me Deadly]]'' (United Artists, 1955), [[Robert Aldrich]] was the [[director (film)|director]], [[Ralph Meeker]] was cast as Hammer, while [[Maxine Cooper]] portrayed Hammer's sexy secretary/companion Velda. *''[[My Gun Is Quick (film)|My Gun Is Quick]]'' (United Artists, 1957), [[Robert Bray]] was cast as Hammer, with more of the violence originating from the villain than the detective. The film grossed $308,000 with a total of $602 overseas. *''[[The Girl Hunters (film)|The Girl Hunters]]'' (Colorama Features, 1963), [[Mickey Spillane]] was given the rare opportunity to portray his own creation in this film. This is one of the few occasions in film history in which the creator of a literary character was later hired to portray that character in a film. Producer [[Robert Fellows]] and Spillane planned to follow the film with ''The Snake'' but it never materialised. *''[[I, the Jury (1982 film)|I, the Jury]]'' ([[20th Century Fox]], 1982), [[Armand Assante]] plays a brutal, energetic Hammer opposite [[Laurene Landon]]'s sexy, athletic Velda in this hard R-rated 80s adaptation written by [[Larry Cohen]] and directed by [[Richard T. Heffron]]. Considered by the majority of Spillane fans (including Spillane co-author [[Max Allan Collins]]) to be the most authentic adaptation of the "psychotic" early Hammer novels.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.maxallancollins.com/blog/2015/04/14/quarry-mike-hammer-news/|title = Quarry & Mike Hammer News Β« Friends/Family/Fans of Max Allan Collins}}</ref> ====Television films==== *''Margin For Murder'' (1981 TV movie), [[Kevin Dobson]] plays Hammer in this made-for-TV movie. *''[[Murder Me, Murder You]]'' (1983 TV movie), [[Stacy Keach]] played Hammer in this TV pilot for the TV series that ran in the 1980s. This update featured a traitor to the U.S. and a daughter Hammer does not know he has. *''More Than Murder'' (1984 TV movie), [[Stacy Keach]] again played Hammer as a high-stakes poker game is robbed and police Captain Pat Chambers intervenes as the thieves make their getaway. He is shot in the back and then framed as a drug dealer. Hammer makes it his job to clear Pat and find out who nearly killed him. *''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 [[Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1984 TV series)|The New Mike Hammer]]. In this April 1986 TV movie, a young girl is kidnapped and there is an attempt on the daughter of a well-known actress, after which the kidnapper then turns up dead. Hammer is hired to protect the girl and travels to Los Angeles. *''[[Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All]]'' (1989 TV movie), Keach reprises his role of Hammer co-starring [[Lynda Carter]], [[Michelle Phillips]] and the pre-stardom [[Jim Carrey]] . He is asked by a Las Vegas entertainer named Johnny Roman ([[Edward Winter (actor)|Edward Winter]]) to come to Vegas. Mike refuses, he is then knocked out and dropped literally into Las Vegas. *''Come Die with Me: A Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Mystery'' (1994 TV movie), [[Rob Estes]] plays Hammer in this TV movie, opposite [[Pamela Anderson]] as his secretary, Velda. *''Mike Hammer: Song Bird (2003) (V)'' β a [[direct-to-video]] compilation of [[Mike Hammer, Private Eye]]'s 1998 episodes of ''"Songbird: Part 1"'' and ''"Songbird: Part 2"'', where [[Stacy Keach]] played Mike Hammer and [[Shannon Whirry]] played his secretary Velda.
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