Mike Hammer (TV Series)

Swing Low, Sweet Harriet (1959)

Darren McGavin: Mike Hammer

Quotes 

• Mike Hammer : Well, I'd like to help you, Emmett, but getting stray husbands untangled from barbed wire just isn't exactly my line of work.

• Mike Hammer : You think we could have this conversation in English?

  Harriet Britton : In English? What y'all talkin' about?

  Mike Hammer : Honey, that accent of yours is as phony as a four-dollar bill.

  Harriet Britton : All right, you win. The accent is a phony; I wouldn't know a hush puppy from a St. Bernard.

• Mike Hammer : Well, who tried to make it look like suicide?

  Emmett Gates : I did.

  Mike Hammer : Well, what made you think you cold get away with a fool thing like that?

  Emmett Gates : I don't know. I lost my head.

  Mike Hammer : You could lose your head for real if you don't watch out.

• [Mike and Mrs. Keller listen to a tape of Orson and Harriet fighting] 

  Orson Keller : What's going on in here?

  Mike Hammer : Eavesdropping on a murder, Keller.

  Orson Keller : Now wait a minute, mister, you've got this all wrong!

  Mike Hammer : Yeah? Maybe the police can get it right.