More Than Murder
– Private eye Mike Hammer tries to clear his friend, Captain Chambers, who has been framed for cocaine..
Release Date:
26 Jan 1984
Language:
English
Director:
Gary Nelson
Writer:
Stephen Downing (teleplay), Mickey Spillane (characters), Bill Stratton (story), Bill Stratton (teleplay)
Main Actors:
Stacy Keach, Lindsay Bloom, Don Stroud, Kent Williams
Plot:
Hammer is asked to be a bodyguard for a high-rolling poker player, a job which he refuses. The game is robbed by two masked gunmen. The men parachute down to the ground but are stopped by Hammer's friend Captain Pat Chambers. However, he is shot in the back by a third gunman and put in hospital seriously wounded. Pat was tipped off about a drug deal but his informant is then killed. When drugs are found in Pat's car, it is part of a plan to frame him. Hammer is determined to clear him, find the shooters and the drug dealers as the bodies pile up.
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