This film was not intended to stand by itself, but was designed as the cinematic aspect of Welles' Mercury Theatre stage presentation of William Gillette's 1894 comedy about a New York playboy who flees from the violent husband of his mistress and borrows the identity of a plantation owner in Cuba who is expecting the arrival of a mail order bride. The film component of the performance was ultimately never screened due to the absence of projection facilities at the venue. Long-believed to be lost, a workprint was discovered in 2008 and the film had its premiere in 2013.
Mickey Spillane plays his own creation, street-thug-turned-PI Mike Hammer, in this 1963 adaptation of his novel. The film opens with Hammer on the downside of a years-long bender, scooped out of the gutter by a bitter cop intent on prying information from a dying man. Inspired to clean up his act by the secrets he hears, Hammer hits the streets on a personal crusade to find the love of his life. Future Bond girl Shirley Earton costars as a glamorous society widow who goes slumming with Hammer.--Sean Axmaker
마크는 현재 영화 스튜디오에서 일하는 카메라맨이다. 그는 과외 시간을 이용해서 옐로우 잡지나 신문 등에 암거래하는 누드 사진을 찍는 부업도 하고 있다. 그러나 그는 어린 시절 아버지의 이상 실험에 영향을 받아 연속적으로 살인을 저지르는 살인자. 거리의 여인들을 촬영하고는 잔인하게 살인을 저지르고 피해자의 얼굴에 장난을 치는등 미친 짓을 계속한다. 드디어 경찰은 조사를 시작하고 마크의 방에서 엄청난 필름들을 발견하기에 이르는데...
A young woman, Judith Moray, deserts her prospective fiance, the nice doctor Alan Kearn, for an old flame, the dashing but roguish former wing commander Bill Glennan. Glennan makes her pregnant and marries her, but leaves her on the morning after the wedding when he learns that her father can't offer him financial support. Two years later she - having been told that Glennan is dead - has married Kearn and borne him a son. But then Glennan suddenly reappears and begins to blackmail her.
