Margin for Murder

Oct 15, 1981

1h 38m

★ 5.5

Overview

Mickey Spillane's hard-hitting '50s private eye, Mike Hammer, returns to television in the guise of Kevin Dobson to track down the killer of his best friend who was driving Hammer's car. Joining in the hunt are the detective's Girl Friday, the ever-hopeful Velda, and his cop friend, Pat Chambers.

Genres

Crime

Mystery

TV Movie

Production Companies

Hamner Productions

Margin for Murder Trailers

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Cast

Mike Hammer

Kevin Dobson

Pat Chambers

Charles Hallahan

Velda

Cindy Pickett

Daisy

Donna Dixon

Jerry Adams

Asher Brauner

Geraldo Machetti

Floyd Levine

Lindsey Brooks

Aarika Wells

Lou Krone

John Considine

Mama De Fellita

Renata Vanni

Glover

Charlie Picerni

John O'Hare

Nicholas Hormann

David Downing

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.

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