Mike Hammer (TV Series)

Accentuate the Negative (1959)

Darren McGavin: Mike Hammer

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• [a beautiful woman enters Mike's office] 

  Mike Hammer : Well, whatever you're sellin', honey, we're buyin'. Come on in!

• Mike Hammer : [narrating]  Traditionally, 42nd and Broadway is the gateway to the world of glamor. Actually, it's a street living in the past. Its once famous theaters which housed the Ziegfeld Follies and George White's Scandals had been transformed into second run houses; its restaurants into frankfurter and orange juice stands; it's cabarets into penny arcades. But to the glamor-struck youngster, it wasn't a tired old street with little to remind it of past glory; it was still a street touched with stardust.

• Dora Church : Oh, yes yes, I remember her, yes. We never should have taken her, she didn't have the qualifications.

  Mike Hammer : Yeah, you were right the first time, honey. You should never have taken her 200 clams.

• Dora Church : I don't know what you're up to, Mr. Hammer, but if you're trying to build up a defense for this killer...

  Mike Hammer : I'll do more than that, honey. I'm going to find the *real* killer.

• Mike Hammer : The newspapers said your files had been ransacked. Do you have any idea what's missing?

  Dora Church : Only Mr. Poley could tell you that... and he's dead.

  Mike Hammer : Yeah, that's right. Well, if he isn't, he's going to have a real yuck coming, because they're going to bury him in the morning.

• Mike Hammer : Somebody must have come in after you left and finished off the job.

  Elsa Webber : Yes, but who?

  Mike Hammer : Yeah, who?

  [Mike picks up a thick telephone directory] 

  Mike Hammer : Here's a partial list of possible suspects.

• Sergeant Maureen Hurley : Mr. Hammer? I'm Sergeant Hurley.

  Mike Hammer : *Sergeant* Hurley? Boy oh boy oh boy, when I think of how unpleasant that word used to sound to me when I was a PFC.

• Mike Hammer : Look, I am not going to go through life calling a woman Sergeant... especially when I think of the synonyms I used to have for that word.