Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Mild
The story
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.
- film noir
- hitchhiker
- black and white
- beach house
- convertable
- private detective
- mike hammer
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Ralph Meeker
Mike Hammer
Albert Dekker
Dr. G.E. Soberin
Paul Stewart
Carl Evello
Juano Hernández
Eddie Yeager
- Wesley Addy — Lt. Pat Murphy
- Marian Carr — Friday
- Maxine Cooper — Velda
- Cloris Leachman — Christina Bailey
- Gaby Rodgers — Lily Carver
- Nick Dennis — Nick
- Jack Lambert — Sugar Smallhouse
- Jack Elam — Charlie Max
- Jerry Zinneman — Sammy
- Leigh Snowden — Cheesecake
- Percy Helton — Doc Kennedy
- Directed
- Robert Aldrich
- Written
- A.I. Bezzerides
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 412 ratings
- Studio
- Parklane Pictures Inc., United Artists
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