The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1986) (TV)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Ray Danton

Writers:

Larry Brody (writer)
Janis Hendler (writer)

Release Date:

18 April 1986 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

A kidnapping in Central Park followed by a near-kidnapping in Mike Hammer's neighborhood from a movie set brings Hammer into the fray...

Plot Keywords:

Mike Hammer | Kidnapping | Gambler | Actress | Organized Crime

Cast

Stacy Keach	...	Mike Hammer
Emily Rose Chance	...	Megan
Don Stroud	...	Capt. Pat Chambers
Lindsay Bloom	...	Velda
Kent Williams	...	Barrington
Lauren Hutton	...	Joanna Lake
John Karlen	...	Chapel
Frank McRae
Michael Preston	...	Dak
Leo Penn	...	Leo
Mickey Rooney	...	Jack Bergan
Stephen Macht	...	Nick Anton
Vince Edwards	...	FBI Agent Frank Walker
Bruce Boxleitner	...	Himself
Dabney Coleman	...	Himself

Runtime:

94 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Not Rated

Filming Locations:

Burbank, California, USA

Company:

Columbia Pictures Television

Trivia:

When Hammer meets Jack Bergin (Mickey Rooney), he inquires about where he might find Nick Anton ('Stephen Macht (I)'). Bergin says he's probably "playing poker over at Joe Yule's." Joe Yule was an actor and Mickey's father. Mickey's real name is Joe Yule, Jr.

Quotes:

Mike Hammer: [upon finding a mime dead in a car trunk] People in show business like to say they were born in a trunk; this is one clown who died in one.

Movie Connections:

Followed by Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All (1989) (TV)

Soundtrack:

HARLEM NOCTURNE

Keep it moving

The crown of Ray Danton's experience as a television director is adherence to one basic rule: keep it moving. This is not only one way to stay ahead of tight production schedules, it enables you to turn on a dime for arbitrary commercial breaks, it gives you a satisfying directorial technique made up of all the little shots you combine into a flexible whole, and sometimes it builds up comprehensive analyses, as in the two-hundred-fifty-dollar gag here which has Mike Hammer in pursuit crossing a New York street and rolling over a passing car's hood and windshield. Danton films this three ways, and puts them all together as one sweep of action.