Mike Hammer (TV Series)

No Business Like ----- (1958)

Darren McGavin: Mike Hammer

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Quotes 

• [Mike's cover is as a carnival barker for a girly-girly show] 

  Mike Hammer : Fifty cents! Half a dollar! Girl girls girls girls! Here here! Girls girls! Feast your eyes, men, but check your blood pressure - you're about to see the loveliest chicks this side of gay Paree. And here she is - Suzette Suzette Suzette! Her friends call her Sizzle. Known to all of Europe as the girl with the most tantalizing torso that ever tempted mankind!

• Mike Hammer : And this is Rita! Rita Rita Rita from Rio! This girl's shape launched a thousand revolutions! Do a few revolutions, honey.

• Mike Hammer : And here is Ingrid! Ingrid Ingrid Ingrid, the Danish beauty - the delectable Danish dish with the delicate dimples! What'd ya say, young fella? You can't see her dimples? Well, of course not - not from this distance, but from inside inside inside...

• Dan Manning : You think I got trouble? Doc's got his?

  Mike Hammer : Hmm? Oh, that's Doc's daughter.

  Dan Manning : The guy with her is a first class heel. Doc's gonna kill that drifter if he keeps playin' around.

  [Mike notices Buddy approaching Lou and Ann angrily] 

  Mike Hammer : Doc's not the only one. I think I'll buy a ticket to this one.

• [Lou continues to kick Buddy after knocking him down] 

  Mike Hammer : The kid's had it. Leave him alone.

  Lou Lindsey : Maybe you'd like a little of the same!

• Doc Fawcett : What is it, Mike?

  Mike Hammer : It's his heart.

  Doc Fawcett : Get an ambulance, Buddy!

  Mike Hammer : No, get the police, Buddy.

  Doc Fawcett : Police? You said it's his heart!

  Mike Hammer : That's right. He's got a bullet right through it.

• Mike Hammer : [narrating]  So there it was. Doc Fawcett was suspect Number One. Buddy Cull's motive was a black eye, a bruised jaw and a fractured pride; Marie Staple nursed the kind of hate that only a disgarded woman can feel and Dan Manning, no matter what Doc thought, could have had a deep enough grudge to kill Lou to hurt Doc, especially if his wife had stirred the jealous fire in his heart. I had to find out who was lying and who had the chance to fire that shot.

• [last lines] 

  Lucy Manning : Come on, let's get out of here. I'm tired; I want to sit down.

  Mike Hammer : Honey, they got a chair waitin' for you where you'll sit out the rest of your life. Come on, honey, come on.