The Girl Hunters. Here’s a good visual summary of the Mike Hammer detective method: dames, duking it out, and dirty job assignments. Oh, and Betsy, his gun, always ready to socialize loudly. Mickey Spillane plays his own trench-coated, rough and downbeat, and boozing detective pining after Velda after she goes missing. Stacy Keach played “the new” Mike Hammer in the 1984 to ’87 television series and a few TV movies. For Keach, he played Hammer with more heart and a soul, but Spillane made sure he still wore his .45 Colt.
