[Note: The notorious character of Mike Hammer first appeared in Spillane""sI, he Juryin 1947.] It was adapted from a screenplay by A.I.Bezzerides.The film is a low-budget, B-grade film (at a cost of about $400,000) without recognizable actors.As a counterpoint to he hard-boiled film, cultural allusions abound: the Christina Rossetti poem "Remember," and a Caruso vocal recording - to name a few.Dillard.Julie: Buck! Aren""t you gonna wish me happiness too?Buck: What""s the use? You won""t get it.Marryin"" a traitor and goin"" up North.Julie: Pres is a banker, not a traitor.I""ll thank ya to remember hat.Buck: I keep forgettin"" there""s a difference, but you won""t like it in the North, Miss Julie...Julie: I""ll be happy anywhere Pres is.Buck: You won""t like it up North.Julie""s new fiancee Preston Dillard, son of a wealthy banking family, has been detained from attending the festivities while engaged in an important business conference with the directors of the investments and exchange firm of Dillard and Sons - "a venerable institution, a financial colossus with branches in New York, Boston, London, and Paris.He had first discussed its destruction with Nicholas Flamel, who agreed that he had enough Elixir to last awhile before his death.Danny Kaye starred as ex-acrobat and minstrel entertainer Hubert Hawkins, one of the members of the "Merry Men" of The Black Fox (Edward Ashley), a Robin Hood-esque or Zorro-like hero/outlaw who was leading a group of rebel loyalists o protect the throne from usurpation.