cult film freak: ROBERT BRAY HAMMERS 'MY GUN IS QUICK' WITH PAMELA DUNCAN

Written by James M. Tate / 4/08/2026 / No comments / booth colman , fifties , film noir or melodrama , mickey spillane , mike hammer , robert bray , whitney blake

ROBERT BRAY HAMMERS 'MY GUN IS QUICK' WITH PAMELA DUNCAN

4/08/2026 | No comment

Robert Bray and Booth Colman in MY GUN IS QUICK Year: 1957 Rating: **

Robert Bray plays Mickey Spillane's no-nonsense private-investigator Mike Hammer in-between Ralph Meeker's quintessential big screen tough guy under-performance in KISS ME DEADLY, and the energetic, watered-down charm of TV's Darren McGavin... and ironically, Bray's MY GUN IS QUICK is a jazz-scored, low-budget b-movie that ironically feels more made-for-television than the series...

The only aspect mirroring DEADLY is how Hammer's secretary Velda looks... as otherwise scream-queen Pamela Duncan's a dead-ringer for full-lipped Maxine Cooper... and while this Velda seems game with the usual jealousy for her boss's inclination for pretty dames, she literally only phones in her few scenes...

Whitney Blake in MY GUN IS QUICK

As does the third most important character in the overall Hammer canon: the overseeing Captain Pat Chambers is portrayed by burly character-actor Booth Colman, when he would have better fit chiselled secondary heavy Richard Garland (who appeared with Pamela Duncan in Roger Corman's THE UNDEAD and ATTACK OF THE MONSTERS the same year)...

For ninety long minutes, Robert Bray visits/questions suspects with a lethargic countenance and monotone voice... from a campy rear-projection speed boat with lead ingenue (and equally dull) Whitney Blake to dark-lit apartments with more intriguing dames who, from doomed first-girl Jan Chaney to nightclub singing Gina Maria Hidalgo, deserved a far more intriguing leading man/investigation.

Robert Bray in MY GUN IS QUICK

Richard Garland in MY GUN IS QUICK

Pamela Duncan in MY GUN IS QUICK

Robert Bray and Pamela Duncan in MY GUN IS QUICK

Robert Bray and Booth Colman in MY GUN IS QUICK

Robert Bray and Patricia Donahue in MY GUN IS QUICK

Richard Garland in MY GUN IS QUICK

Booth Colman in MY GUN IS QUICK

Whitney Blake in MY GUN IS QUICK

Whitney Blake and Robert Bray in MY GUN IS QUICK

Jan Chaney in MY GUN IS QUICK

Gina Maria Hidalgo in MY GUN IS QUICK

Pamela Duncan in MY GUN IS QUICK

From MY GUN IS QUICK

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