Word: mickeys
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...violence seared the pages of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer novels (the first, I, the Jury, was published that year), so they explode on the screen in Railroaded! In Mann movies, the broken bottle, not the gun, is the favored weapon of menace, perhaps because it's more sickeningly intimate. John Ireland, the film's primary thug, breaks a bottle and comes after Joe. Raymond Burr, Mann's inspired (and quite literal) notion of a heavy, had used one in Desperate, and he does it again in Railroaded!, breaking a bottle over...
...DIED. Mickey Spillane, 88, scribe behind the gory, hard-boiled Mike Hammer detective novels , which appalled critics with their stilted prose ("Her 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...
...ever-lovin' Velda. But the way it plays is that Mike is less turned on by women who show they're turned on to him; maybe he thinks they've cheapened themselves. Or maybe he's just shy of sex. (In the Collins film, Jane Rodgers Spillane, Mickey's third and last wife, recalled with a smile that "Sex was taboo with him until we were married...
...want out, but you also want to stay, if only to see how similar Mike Hammer's atavistic codes and instincts are to yours, and how swiftly and deftly Spillane etches this urban underworld. (As novelist Mirian Ann Moore says, "Nobody ever hit a noun against a verb like Mickey Spillane...
...primal therapy through fiction, and the book releases you only at the last page from the awful fascination of its grip. A thrilling or sickening ordeal for you, dear reader. But for Mickey Spillane... it was easy...