Timothy S. Oliver (CSEM@zianet.com)
Fri, 30 Jul 1999 00:34:30 -0700
I saw The Girl Hunters when it first came out. I recall
enjoying it. But I was only 11 years old. I think it was a
late show feature for many years. It's B&W I believe.
Something about a shotgun and a potted plant...
-----Original Message----- From: Juri Nummelin <jurnum@utu.fi> To: rara-avis@icomm.ca
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Date: Thursday, July 29, 1999 11:54 PM Subject: Re:
RARA-AVIS: RARA-AVIS chandler question, spillane
article
>On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Christopher Bahn (Kelly Services
Inc) wrote:
>
>> Also, the British film critic/horror writer Kim
Newman has an article on
the
>> BBC's Web site about Mickey Spillane. It doesn't
look like it has any
>> particularly new information, but if anyone's
interested, I include it
>> below:
>>
>> I, the Jury was a huge success and, throughout
the 50s and 60s, Spillane
>> delivered more thrillers with tough, almost camp
titles like Vengeance is
>> Mine and My Gun is Quick. Spillane was made for
the movies, but aside
from
>> Robert Aldrich's masterpiece Kiss Me Deadly
(1954), with the thuggish
Ralph
>> Meeker in the lead, there have been no screen
Hammers on a level with
>> Humphrey Bogart as both Spade and Marlowe. One
reason for this may be
that
>> Spillane was reluctant to let anyone else be the
face of his first-person
>> hero.
>
>It should be noted that Spillane himself played
Hammer in the British (!)
>"The Girl Hunters" (1963 or so). Has anyone seen the
film?
>
>Nevertheless I think that Spillane is quite close to
fascism, but I would
>never say that about Tarantino, who at least shows
some affection to his
>characters (is there anything that resembles Spillane
in "Jackie Brown"?).
>
>Juri
>
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