My Gun Is Quick (1957)

★★★★ · Entertaining Flick of you like Noir tough guy films · Westondo · 2021-04-16

Robert Bray plays an over the top P.I. not afraid to beat the truth out of a suspect as he does with a guy threatening Red, an unlucky dancer, who winds up dead, as does another dancer and an innocent mute Frenchmen. The dialogue and action feels a little forced at times, but you have to remember this is how Micky Spillane wrote his character, Mike Hammer. And Velma, played by Pamela Duncan. oh my, its hard to believe a woman's waist could be so narrow, while the rest of her is not. If she were my secretary, I'd spend more time in the office. The plot is predictable and I didn't have to work…

★★★★ · Quick Gun, Quick Fists, Fast Women · Poohbah70 · 2019-10-15

An entertaining murder/theft mystery film from a book by Mickey Spillane. I've never read any of Spillane's books, so I can only assume after watching two Mike Hammer movies - this one and "I...The Jury" - that these films are accurate translations to the screen of Spillane's hard-boiled private detective Hammer. The plots are cookie-cutter style - blink once and you might be in another Hammer film. While I preferred Biff Elliot's Hammer, here he is well played by Robert Bray, as a slightly less vicious, slightly more philosophical go-getter, who typically, gets overheated by a death - here…

★★ · Good start, but... · 20cent · 2020-11-22

The beginning is quite interesting, even sensible (a wonderful first scene of frienship an humanity in a crumy joint) and, for a fan of Marylin Monroe, it it amazing to see Robert Bray who plays so well the bus driver in "Bus Stop". But... it turns on very common and not at the level of another story about the same private detective Mike Hammer -- "I, the jury" -- with an excellent Biff Elliot. To bad...