My Gun is Quick
Posted: May 7th, 2011, 2:09 pm
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I'm not sure if this one is considered a film noir pic. I DVR'd it last night because I caught the name of the star as being Robert Bray whom I love from his role as Dad/Driver on Stagecoach West. He plays such a well centered, hearty fellow, and seems to have a great rapport with Wayne Rogers, that it seems like it would be hard to not like him.
This, of course was a totally different role for him, and though I hate to say it, he does better on the small screen than the large. He's certainly attractive enough to be a leading man, but the love scenes were so rushed, it was like the director was saying "Let's hurry and get this over and get back to the main story". But again, it was a Mickey Spillane - Mike Hammer story, and many of them are written that way. Mickey has to get his girls and kisses in there.
In this, Mike helps a girl who's being knocked around by her ' boyfriend ' (?) with some money to get out of town and go home, but her body is found the next day. As he looks around the murder scene, he notices a unique ring she had been wearing is missing, and that ring gives him clues enough to solve the crime. Again, it's typical Mickey Spillane, not one to go hunting for, but good enough if it shows up some boring Saturday afternoon.
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I'm not sure if this one is considered a film noir pic. I DVR'd it last night because I caught the name of the star as being Robert Bray whom I love from his role as Dad/Driver on Stagecoach West. He plays such a well centered, hearty fellow, and seems to have a great rapport with Wayne Rogers, that it seems like it would be hard to not like him.
This, of course was a totally different role for him, and though I hate to say it, he does better on the small screen than the large. He's certainly attractive enough to be a leading man, but the love scenes were so rushed, it was like the director was saying "Let's hurry and get this over and get back to the main story". But again, it was a Mickey Spillane - Mike Hammer story, and many of them are written that way. Mickey has to get his girls and kisses in there.
In this, Mike helps a girl who's being knocked around by her ' boyfriend ' (?) with some money to get out of town and go home, but her body is found the next day. As he looks around the murder scene, he notices a unique ring she had been wearing is missing, and that ring gives him clues enough to solve the crime. Again, it's typical Mickey Spillane, not one to go hunting for, but good enough if it shows up some boring Saturday afternoon.
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