My Gun Is Quick (film)

My Gun Is Quick is a 1957 American film noir crime film directed by George White and Victor Saville and starring Robert Bray.

Plot

Private investigator Mike Hammer, by assisting a prostitute being assaulted, cannot help noticing a unique ring on her finger. Later, when she is found murdered that ring is nowhere to be found. From here the story moves to a cache of jewelry stolen by the Nazis during World War II and smuggled out of France after the war by an American army colonel, who, together with Mike Hammer, tries to find the ring and recover all the other jewels. However, many parties are on the lookout and the private eye runs into big trouble.

Cast

Robert Bray as Mike Hammer
Whitney Blake as Nancy Williams
Donald Randolph as Colonel Holloway
Richard Garland as Louis
Fred Essler as Ludwig Teller
Booth Colman as Capt. Pat Chambers
Pamela Duncan as Velda
Genie Coree as Maria
Patricia Donahue as Dione
Jan Chaney as Red
Terence de Marney as Jean
Peter Mamakos as La Roche
Claire Carleton as Nightclub Boss
Phil Arnold as Shorty

Critical reception

TV Guide noted "The third of UA's Mike Hammer films in the 1950s...the usual number of fisticuffs, killings, and love scenes are presented. This is a lesser work in the series. Though well-crafted, the story is shallow and not really worth the efforts given here. The violence is often senseless and the sex seems to exist only for its own sake. Well produced, but still a boring and tasteless piece"; In a synopsis of the film for Allmovie, Hal Erickson wrote, "Not quite as accomplished as Robert Aldrich's classic Mike Hammer yarn Kiss Me Deadly, My Gun Is Quick works well within its modest limits."