Release Date: Jan 1, 1963 Wide
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Novelist Mickey Spillane portrays his own creation, Mike Hammer, in The Girl Hunters. Hammer has spent seven years in an alcoholic funk after the supposed death of his secretary, Velda. He is brought back to the land of the living by his old friendly enemy, police lieutenant Pat Chambers (Scott Peters), who wants Hammer to extract some information out of a dying federal agent. This puts Mike on the trail of a subversive communist organization, the key to which seems to be sexy Laura Knapp
Unrated, 1 hr. 30 min.
Drama, Action & Adventure, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense, Classics
Jan 1, 1963 Wide
Mar 14, 2000
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A miscast Spillane manages to stumble over his own lame dialogue.
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
May 11, 2011
Easily the strangest Mike Hammer film yet. From the idea of the character's creator playing the role, to the use of an entire core Hammer-verse character as a MacGuffin, there's some wildly interesting choices being made here on the part of director Roy Rowland, unfortunately they all backfire and the result is a
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