Mike Hammer (TV Series)
The Broken Frame (1958)
Darren McGavin: Mike Hammer
Quotes
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[first lines]
Mike Hammer : [narrating] The town of Ossining isn't far up the Hudson River from Manhattan - just thirty miles. It doesn't take much more than an hour to get there, but getting back is something else again... for some the round trip takes years, for others, an eternity.
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Mike Hammer : [narrating] It was one of those days when New Yorkers wished they bought an island from the Eskimos instead of the Manhattan Indians. The humid heat was like a barber's towel draped over the city.
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Captain Pat Chambers : As far as the Department is concerned the Bennett case is closed. There's not enough new evidence to justify reopening it.
Mike Hammer : Yeah, but that's not good enough for you, huh? Why? Do you know something more than is here in Stark's statement?
Captain Pat Chambers : Yeah. Stark said he could prove it was on the level.
Mike Hammer : How?
Captain Pat Chambers : I don't know; he wouldn't say. He said the proof would come out after he'd gone to the chair.
Mike Hammer : After he goes...? Oh, that's cute. He's real cute, isn't he? Well, if Stark's planted a time bomb somewhere, I'd better get dressed and see if I can find it before it blows up in our faces.
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Eve Bennett : You remember me, don't you?
Mike Hammer : Of course - you're Wally Bennett's...
Eve Bennett : ...widow. That's the word you were looking for, Mr. Hammer.
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Mike Hammer : Well, are you going to shoot or not?
Eve Bennett : Maybe you think I haven't the nerve.
Mike Hammer : I wouldn't know... but I hope you have better sense!
Eve Bennett : Well, you can stop hoping, Mr. Hammer.
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Mike Hammer : [narrating] In thirty seconds, I'd gone from feeling like an expectant father to a bridegroom who'd been left waiting at the church.
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Mike Hammer : Did you check with the hospital about David Kendall?
Captain Pat Chambers : He's going to live... just long enough to die.
Mike Hammer : Well, that's just about all any of us do, Pat.
