Mike Hammer's (The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer) is an American film directed by Ray Danton, released in 1986. It is a free adventure by private detective Mike Hammer, a character imagined by American writer Mickey Spillane in 1947. This film serves as a transition between the series Mike Hammer (Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer) broadcast in 1984-1985 and the series Mike Hammer's Le Retour (The New Mike Hammer) broadcast in 1986-1987. Arrested and sentenced to prison in England in 1984, Stacy Keach had indeed had to put aside his role in serving his sentence.