Michael Malloy in Popular Culture
- "You Can't Kill Michael Malloy" is an instrumental piece by The Spent Poets. A clip of the song appears on the album Frizzle Fry by the band Primus.
- In 1993, a play based on Malloy's murder was made, titled The Killing of Michael Malloy, by Erik Jendresen.
- "Michael Malloy" is the name of a song by grindcore band Gob on their 7" split with Agoraphobic Nosebleed.
- An episode, "The Durable Mike Malloy Case," of the 1952 television series Gang Busters seems to have been inspired by this incident.
- The story is the plot of the 1949 pulp novel All Dames Are Dynamite, by Timothy Trent.
- "You Can't Break Mike Malloy" is the first song on the debut album, Kick it till you like it, of the Dutch rock band SUNBURN.
- The story of Malloy's murder was featured on an episode of the BBC series QI in 2011.
- An episode, "One for the Road," of Amazing Stories (TV series) features bar patrons trying to murder a drunk named Mike Malloy for insurance money.
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