#mickeyspillane — Public Fediverse posts

Had it not been for the Production Code I, the Jury (1953) would have been the best-ever Mickey Spillane film adaptation. It's still pretty good - Peggie Castle sizzles, John Alton’s cinematography is superb. See it.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/06/i-jury-1953.html

#MickeySpillane #MikeHammer #JohnAlton #PeggieCastle #50smovie #50smovies #1950smovie #1950smovies #filmnoir

Mickey Spillane was definitely in the groove when he wrote the fifth Mike Hammer book The Big Kill in 1951. As so often it’s Hammer’s sensitive side that drives him on - it drives him even when he’s blowing away hoodlums with his .45.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2020/03/mickey-spillanes-big-kill.html

#vintagethrillers #vintagethriller #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #noir #noirfiction #crimefiction #hardboiledcrime hardboiledfiction #hardboiled #pulpfiction #MickeySpillane #MikeHammer

#Noirvember Watched “Kiss Me Deadly” (1955), a #FilmNoir movie with a heaping helpful of Cold War paranoia. Directed by #RobertAldrich, and starring #RalphMeeker as Mike Hammer, a brazen private dick who becomes embroiled in a bizarre mystery after picking up #ClorisLeachman (!) as Christina Bailey, a woman on the run from a shadowy cabal. Based on a novel by #MickeySpillane. https://archive.org/details/kissmedeadly1955_202001

Mickey Spillane’s 1964 novel The Snake is a sequel to The Girl Hunters and you absolutely must read The Girl Hunters first. This is a very different Mike Hammer - older, wiser and sadder. Both books are great, but read the earlier books first.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/06/mickey-spillanes-snake.html

#crimenovel #crimenovels #crimefiction #vintagecrime #vintagemysteries #vintagemystery #MickeySpillane #MikeHammer #hardboiled #hardboiledfiction #privateeyes

I can't believe I missed this going up. But...here is my enormous double #sestina culled from the writings of #JordanPeterson and other manly writers. #NickBostrom! #MickeySpillane! #MarquisdeSade! Learn how to be a #man! https://synchchaos.com/poetry-from-noah-berlatsky/

Tonight in 1984 — #MikeHammer debuted as a weekly series on CBS.

#StacyKeach played #MickeySpillane’s iconic private eye, first introduced in the 1947 novel "I, the Jury.”

#OnThisDay #ClassicTV #1980s #1980sTV #Nostalgia

Time To Prey, an enjoyable 1960 entry in Frank Kane’s long-running Johnny Liddell PI thriller series. A pretty girl passes a letter to Johnny and then gets murdered.

Johnny Liddell is a Mike Hammer clone, but more cold-blooded and less ethical. But Kane is just not in Spillane's league as a writer.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/01/frank-kanes-time-to-prey.html

#noir #noirfiction #hardboiled #hardboiledfiction #vintagecrime #1960scrime #crimefiction #FrankKane #MickeySpillane #MikeHammer #privateeyes