Mickey Spillane's hard-hitting '50s private eye, Mike Hammer, returns to television in the guise of Kevin Dobson to track down the killer of his best friend who was driving Hammer's car. Joining in the hunt are the detective's Girl Friday, the ever-hopeful Velda, and his cop friend, Pat Chambers.
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.
After his best friend and war buddy is mysteriously gunned down, Mike Hammer will stop at nothing to settle the score for the man who sacrificed a limb to save his own life during combat. Along the way, Hammer rides a fine line between gumshoe and a one-man jury, staying two-steps ahead of the law—and trying not to get bumped off in the process.
Jack Williams was the best friend of Vietnam veteran and detective Mike Hammer. When Jack is murdered, Mike makes it his business to solve the crime. He is helped by his secretary Velda, and partly helped, partly hindered by the Chief of Police, Pat Chambers. On the trail of the killer, Mike discovers government conspiracies, and plots used by the CIA and the Mafia.
Detective Mike Hammer's investigation of a murder puts him in the middle between warring jewel thieves.
Mickey Spillane plays his own creation, street-thug-turned-PI Mike Hammer, in this 1963 adaptation of his novel. The film opens with Hammer on the downside of a years-long bender, scooped out of the gutter by a bitter cop intent on prying information from a dying man. Inspired to clean up his act by the secrets he hears, Hammer hits the streets on a personal crusade to find the love of his life. Future Bond girl Shirley Earton costars as a glamorous society widow who goes slumming with Hammer.--Sean Axmaker
Mike Hammer is kidnapped and led to believe it is the work of a Las Vegas entertainer, but soon realises somebody else is involved.
After two attempts to kidnap a little girl Mike Hammer is hired to protect her.
Private eye Mike Hammer tries to clear his friend, Captain Chambers, who has been framed for cocaine possession.
Private detective Mike Hammer takes on a case looking for Trinity Sinclair's father who has been missing for 15 years.
Documentary about the life and work of mystery writer Mickey Spillane.
It’s the year 1992, which marks exactly eight years since the disappearance of Sherry Wright’s mother. Her case was closed a long time ago but after finding something that might give more information than she wanted, Sherry decides to investigate on her own. Just who knew that you could hide away within the faults of your own mind? And how is anyone going to believe her if the proof is simply a state of thought? (Test page for short movie, this movie does not actually exist)
Ibpa Mi explores the journey of Lylia, a devout young woman whose deep-rooted religious beliefs mask a hidden truth that threatens to shatter her perception of reality.
A group of wealthy teenagers commit crimes that escalate from petty mischief to dangerous plots, causing chaotic consequences — but not for themselves.
Struggling school teacher Madison strikes a lucrative book deal to help solve her financial troubles. As she dives into her dark past surrounding the "College Town Slayings," she realizes it may still be a part of her present after all.
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The history of the peplum genre, known as sword-and-sandal cinema, set in Antiquity, from the silent film era to the present day.
A woman witnesses a murder, reports the crime and become a target for the murderer.