The Girl Hunters

Mickey Spillane plays his own creation, street-thug-turned-PI Mike Hammer, in this 1963 adaptation of his novel. The film opens with Hammer on the downside of a years-long bender, scooped out of the gutter by a bitter cop intent on prying information from a dying man. Inspired to clean up his act by the secrets he hears, Hammer hits the streets on a personal crusade to find the love of his life. Future Bond girl Shirley Eaton costars as a glamorous society widow who goes slumming with Hammer.--Sean Axmaker

5.5

98 min

Cast

Mickey Spillane

as Mike Hammer

Shirley Eaton

as Laura Knapp

Lloyd Nolan

as Arthur Rickerby

Scott Peters

as Pat Chambers

Hy Gardner

as Hy Gardner

Guy Kingsley Poynter

as Larry Snyder

James Dyrenforth

as Bayliss

Murray Kash

as Richie Cole

Clive Endersby

as Duck-Duck

Larry Taylor

as Dragon

Larry Cross

as Red Markham

Nellie Hanham

as Landlady

Kim Tracy

Director

Roy Rowland