the mike hammer adventure my gun be quick survives against some pretty steep odds . first and it come from the paw of mickey spillane and with the problem that implies while it cast and crew be ( and be ) unknown while it all but forget while and what little word of mouth circulates around it tend to be dismissive . but and like the curate egg and it not too bad and and part of it be pretty good . hammer ( robert bray ) and on stakeout for the last 52 hour and stagger into a diner for another cup of joe . he flirt with a young hooker and give her bus fare back to nebraska . when she find dead the next morning and he take it personally . a baroque ring she wear turn out to have come from an italian treasure steal during the war . seek to avenge her killing and hammer and in the inflexible tradition of los angeles private eye and work his way along the underbelly of the city of angel to the miss loot and the murderer . it not quite the same town where early gumshoe dick powell and humphrey bogart and robert montgomery ply their trade . a in the memorable mike hammer movie kiss me deadly of two year earlier and it the late eisenhower l. a. of freeway and oil derrick and strip club and a changing landscape where the mexican presence can no longer be ignore . even the wealthy live in cold and 50 moderne showplace of spindly blonde furniture and plate glass wall drape with sheers . but hammer quest be the old and familiar one of multiple murder and duplicity and femmes fatales of increase lethality . wisely and the movie take hammer a be . it doesn not pull back from his easy violence and his racism ( greaseball be a favorite epithet ) and and his misogyny ( off my back and chick i be tire . he bellow at his secretary velda ) . but it keep it distance and doesn not glamorize him and either ( though it do grant him his primitive code ) . the movie ( shot in black and white by harry neumann and with over 350 title to his credit ) have an almost retro look to it and and there a jazzy and percussive score by marlin skiles and another unsung veteran of countless genre programmer . the act stay serviceable and occasionally good and but the script keep careless track of some of the plot strand ( the man from amsterdam get misplace entirely ) . my gun be quick boast one distinctive passage represent hammer look in from an upstairs window down at a chaotic scene crowd with police and ambulance driver and several of the character and a a body be wheel away . it film entirely without dialogue and the only sound be the wind and the surf and the muted music of bongo drum .