****SPOILERS*** The film "Deadly Illusion" was supposed to be the follow up to the previous Mike Hammer flick "I the Jury" released six years earlier with its star Billy Dee Williams playing unlicensed and out of work private detective Hamberger an Afrcian American version of the famous Mickey Spillane gumshoe. Hamberger is contacted at his makeshift office, munching on a sour pickle, at a local midtown Manhattan deli by this mysterious Wall street type Alex Burton. Burton offers Hamberger a proposition of $100,000.00 to murder his wife Sharon who lives in far out Long Island and make it look like the results of an home invasion. Reluctant to go through with the plan but taking the $25,000.00 advance money Hamberger goes to see Sharon and instead of whacking her has a a quickie,sexual tryst, with Sharon instead. It's later discovered by Hamberger that not only was Sharon murdered but the person whom he was having such a good time with on the island wasn't Sharon at all! Even Sharon's so-called husband Alex was a phony in him getting into a fight with Hamberger who tracked him down to this New Years Party in Time Square where he after slugging it out with Hamberger fell through window and down 20 floors to his death!
Arrested by the police in Mrs. Sharon Burton's murder since he was the last person to supposedly be with her when she was alive Hamberger is convinced that he was set up in some way to cover up a far bigger crime in progress right from the start. That's when taken by the police to the city morgue he saw the real Mr. Alex Burton identify his wife who despite the act of a grieving husband that he put on wasn't at all that sorry to see her gone! Given by the detective in charge Paul Lefferts, Joseph Cortese, of the Sharon Burton murder case 48 hours to come up with her real killer Hamberger together with his girlfriend Rina, Vanity, check out all the clues in Sharon's murder. This leads Hamberger to this fashion model agency run by the stately and striking beautiful Miss. Jean Mallory whom Hamberger somehow feels he's met before but just can't quite place the time and the place.
****SPOILERS**** As Hamberger soon finds out the agency run by Miss Mallory is really used to smuggle in heroin from the Middle and Near East by the very fashion models employed by it! And it's the late Sharon's husband Alex Burton who's a silent partner with Miss. Mallory in this criminal operation! Now a marked man not only by the police but the mob running the heroin smuggling ring Hamberger has to go out on his own risking his life to get those behind it who've framed him in order to silence him by getting arrested for Mrs. Burton's murder. But with Hamberger being street wise and now on to what's been happening to him that won't such an easy task for them! Nowhere as easy as murdering Mrs. Burton as framing Hamberger in her being murder!
Great NYC locals with Hamberger escaping from getting fried broiled or charcoaled by the drug smuggling mob in an attack on a swanky East River barge restaurant by an attacking helicopter as well as fighting off a potential assassin on top, as well as on the ice skating rink, of the giant Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. The two climatic scenes at the New york Mets' Shea Stadium as well as in Miss.Mallory's darkened office are pure Mickey Spillane with Hamberger doing in the bad guys as well as girl, Jane Mallory,in typical Mike Hammer fashion.
Arrested by the police in Mrs. Sharon Burton's murder since he was the last person to supposedly be with her when she was alive Hamberger is convinced that he was set up in some way to cover up a far bigger crime in progress right from the start. That's when taken by the police to the city morgue he saw the real Mr. Alex Burton identify his wife who despite the act of a grieving husband that he put on wasn't at all that sorry to see her gone! Given by the detective in charge Paul Lefferts, Joseph Cortese, of the Sharon Burton murder case 48 hours to come up with her real killer Hamberger together with his girlfriend Rina, Vanity, check out all the clues in Sharon's murder. This leads Hamberger to this fashion model agency run by the stately and striking beautiful Miss. Jean Mallory whom Hamberger somehow feels he's met before but just can't quite place the time and the place.
****SPOILERS**** As Hamberger soon finds out the agency run by Miss Mallory is really used to smuggle in heroin from the Middle and Near East by the very fashion models employed by it! And it's the late Sharon's husband Alex Burton who's a silent partner with Miss. Mallory in this criminal operation! Now a marked man not only by the police but the mob running the heroin smuggling ring Hamberger has to go out on his own risking his life to get those behind it who've framed him in order to silence him by getting arrested for Mrs. Burton's murder. But with Hamberger being street wise and now on to what's been happening to him that won't such an easy task for them! Nowhere as easy as murdering Mrs. Burton as framing Hamberger in her being murder!
Great NYC locals with Hamberger escaping from getting fried broiled or charcoaled by the drug smuggling mob in an attack on a swanky East River barge restaurant by an attacking helicopter as well as fighting off a potential assassin on top, as well as on the ice skating rink, of the giant Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. The two climatic scenes at the New york Mets' Shea Stadium as well as in Miss.Mallory's darkened office are pure Mickey Spillane with Hamberger doing in the bad guys as well as girl, Jane Mallory,in typical Mike Hammer fashion.