Word: gunness
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...herself. She is the pivotal figure and the audience's surrogate. First she's repulsed by Joe, then feels drawn into his macho orbit, then pulls herself together and out of her entanglement. Joe, in turn, is attracted to her attraction for him. "If I had a gun I'd stop you," she says in the early going; and he, acknowledging a woman's power over a man, replies, "You don't need a gun." Later, teary and sexy, she cuddles up to Joe, who mutters, "I'm not worth it." "Oh yes you are," she whispers intensely...
...household where my parents were incredibly supportive of the arts. My brothers ended up becoming professional dancers. I grew up as the third dancing brother in a family of dancing brothers--not the cool thing to be in the middle of West Virginia. I did have guns, though. I'm pro-gun. I think that guns don't kill people. Bullets kill people...
...eyes were a symphony of incredulity," Spillane wrote of a victim whom Hammer had romanced, then shot) but enthralled readers, who bought more than 100 million copies over six decades; in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. Spillane's anticommunist bent and good-vs.-evil plots in such yarns as My Gun Is Quick, One Lonely Night and I, the Jury resonated with weary postwar Americans. He also built a multimedia juggernaut: the hard-drinking, gleefully sadistic Hammer inspired film noir (Kiss Me, Deadly), made-for-TV movies and three TV series. The author, who got his start in comic books, bore...
...movie rights to the English director-producer Victor Saville. "I always thought that Saville would have the sense to do what was right," Spillane told Collins. "He never did." The result was four '50s big-screen adaptations: three cheap little dogs (I, the Jury, The Long Night and My Gun Is Quick) and one large, strange, rabid animal (Kiss Me Deadly...
...Long Night, with Anthony Quinn as a non-Hammer hero with amnesia, is a drab affair, and My Gun Is Quick buried its chance at B-minus competence with another unknown, inapt Hammer, Robert Bray. You might say that Spillane should always have played him, as he does in the 1963 The Girl Hunters. (Richard Wright, of Native Son fame, is the only other best-selling novelist I know who played his own major character in a movie. Anyone know others?) But that would be to overrate Spillane's hulking amateurism. He has fun in the movie, but maneuvers only...