Murder Me, Murder You
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| Murder Me, Murder You | |
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 Stacy Keach as Mike Hammer |
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| Genre | Mystery, Crime, Action |
| Running time | 96 minutes (approx.) |
| Creator | Mickey Spillane |
| Written by | Bill Stratton |
| Directed by | Gary Nelson |
| Produced by | Lew Gallo |
| Starring | Stacy Keach Tanya Roberts Don Stroud Kent Williams Delta Burke Tom Atkins Jonathan Banks |
| Music by | Earle Hagen |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language | English |
| Original channel | CBS |
| Release date(s) | April 9, 1983 |
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Murder Me, Murder You is a made-for-TV movie starring Stacy Keach as Mickey Spillane's iconic hard-boiled private detective, Mike Hammer. The movie marks the first time the fictitious gumshoe would be portrayed on the small-screen since Darren McGavin played the part in the black and white version of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, a syndicated television series that aired from 1958 to 1960. Murder Me, Murder You was the first of two pilots - the other being More Than Murder - that blazed a path for the 1980s version of the CBS syndicated series Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer which debuted on January 28, 1984.
[edit] Plot
Mike is hired to protect Michelle Phillips, an old flame who he hasn't seen in almost 20 years. Phillips heads up an all female high-risk courier agency that has become tied up in a dangerous exchange involving high-stakes bribes by an American helicopter manufacturer to a corrupt General in Central America. Phillips nonetheless drops dead in the middle of testifying before a grand jury, but not before informing Mike that he as a 19 year old daughter who is caught in the middle of everything and might already be dead.
[edit] Stacy Keach's First Appearance as Mike Hammer
The TV movie is significant because it marks the first appearance of Stacy Keach in the role Hammer, a face that many now identify as the definitive identity of the rough-and-tumble detective. After the second pilot movie and syndicated series, Keach would go on to star in a third made-for-TV movie (The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer), two additional syndicated series (The New Mike Hammer and Mike Hammer, Private Eye) and in 1996 his voice was featured reading the audiobook version of Spillane's final Mike Hammer novel Black Alley.
[edit] DVD Release
After almost 25 years, Murder Me, Murder You was released on DVD by Sony Pictures. The DVD comes packaged as a two DVD set. The second disc featuring the subsequent Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer pilot More Than Murder.
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