The Girl Hunters (1963)If you want it done right, you've got to do it yourself. Mickey Spillane is playing his own private eye hero, Mike Hammer. No, it's not the old Lite Beer from Miller commercials that he did in the 70s. Although, it might be as comical. This is a low budget detective movie, (and not the best
Mike Hammer movie) but it is an interesting take seeing tiny Spillane try to pull it off.The movie opens with the cops pulling a dead drunk Mike Hammer out of an alley. After his secretary, Velda died, he's just been burying himself in a bottle. However, the police Captain Pat Chambers (Scott Peters) wants Mike alive to interview a dying witness who will only talk to him.When Mike talks to the witness, his last dying breath was that the man who tried to kill him is a commie assassin known as the Dragon, and that he may have been the guy who killed Velda.Federal Agent Arthur Rickerby (Lloyd Nolan) is very interested in this case too, but Mike won't tell him what he's been hearing, despite Agent Rickerby getting his detectives license back and the ability to legally carry his 45 automatic.The femme fatale in all this is the widow Laura Knapp played by lovely Shirley Eaton (who you may remember as the golden girl in the 007 movie, Gold Finger). She's beautiful, (and has an ass that you can spout poetry to) and isn't that bad of an actress either. Her late husband may have been killed by the Dragon too.Hammer trolls the seedy side of the city to find out who this Dragon character is and who his handler is.
May 11, 2011
