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Pat Murphy, who tries to get Hammer to step aside.

Femme Fatale: Lily Carver, who tricks Mike into thinking she's an innocent damsel but is actually an impostor, and a murderous one to boot.Later when they check under the car at Nick's garage Mike shows that there was a second bomb set to go off when the car accelerates to higher speeds driving in the country. His mechanic friend Nick goes to start it but Mike stops him and and shows that under the hood there's a bomb connected to the starter. External Combustion: The killers have left a sports car outside his apartment building in perfect condition.Every Car Is a Pinto: Mike's car bursts into flame while gently rolling down a ravine.Dutch Angle: Used throughout a scene where a dazed Hammer briefly regains consciousness in the hospital.Drowning My Sorrows: Mike goes to a bar and downs a whole bottle of bourbon after his friend Nick is killed for getting involved in Mike's investigation.The only survivors are Mike and Velda, who stagger out into the sea terrified and confused as Hell seems to come to Earth. Downer Ending: The film ends with the "Great Whatsit" being opened by Gabrielle, who screams in agony as she (and the beach house) goes up like a Roman candle.Bezzerides deconstructed the Hardboiled Detective character here, depicting him as a vicious, amoral narcissist.

Deconstruction: Director Robert Aldrich and screenwriter A.I.Dead Person Impersonation: Gabrielle is pretending to be Lily Carver, though Mike doesn't find out she's dead until it's too late.Subverted in she is later revealed to be not the real Lily but Gabrielle, the mistress of the Big Bad.

Damsel in Distress: Christina Bailey and later her roommate Lily Carver.

He picks her up, from then on becoming embroiled in a plot involving murder, missing scientists and a mysterious box. She stops a car driven by private divorce detective Mike Hammer. Originally unsuccessful upon its theatrical release, it is now considered one of the classic examples of Film Noir and was later cited as influential among directors of the French New Wave and also Quentin Tarantino when he made Pulp Fiction.Ī terrified young woman named Christina Bailey ( Cloris Leachman in her first credited screen role) wearing only a trenchcoat is running down a highway at night. Spillane didn't much care for the film, as it actually deconstructed his macho, tough guy creation and differed from the original story by involving Cold War espionage and a nuclear MacGuffin. 1955 Film Noir adaptation of the Crime Fiction novel by Mickey Spillane, directed by Robert Aldrich ( The Dirty Dozen, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?) and starring Ralph Meeker as Los Angeles Private Detective Mike Hammer.