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The Girl Hunters (film)

The Girl Hunters
Directed byRoy Rowland
Written byMickey Spillane
Robert Fellows
Roy Rowland
Produced byRobert Fellows
Starring
CinematographyKenneth Talbot
Edited bySidney Stone
Music byPhilip Green
Production
companies
Fellane Productions
Present Day Productions, Inc.
Distributed byColorama Features
Zodiac International Pictures
Release date
  • 12 June 1963 (1963-06-12) (Los Angeles premiere)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$400,000[1]

The Girl Hunters (1963) is a British crime drama film directed by Roy Rowland and adapted from the 1962 Mickey Spillane pulp novel of the same name. Exteriors were shot on location in New York with studio scenes in London.

Spillane stars as private detective Mike Hammer, one of the few occasions in film history in which an author of a popular literary hero has portrayed his own character. The film also stars Shirley Eaton, Lloyd Nolan and columnist Hy Gardner as himself.

Producer Robert Fellows intended to follow the film with Spillane's The Snake, but the second film was never produced.[2]

Plot

Ever since his assistant Velda went missing, private detective Mike Hammer has been drinking and he is now homeless. Although Hammer hasn't worked a case in seven years, his old police friend Capt. Pat Chambers asks for his assistance on a job. Chambers and Hammer were both in love with Velda, which had ended their friendship. The case involves a senator who has been murdered.

Hammer is needed to talk with Richie Cole, a dying sailor who refuses to speak with anybody else. According to federal agent Art Rickerby, not only has Richie been shot by the same gun recently used to kill a politician, he is actually an undercover federal agent.

Hammer's investigation leads to Laura Knapp, the late senator's widow. She is beautiful and seductive, but Hammer does not trust her. He learns that they are caught in the fallout from a network of spies operating during World War II. Now a killer nicknamed the Dragon is trying to silence people who had information about the spy operation. Hammer finds and kills the Dragon. He confronts Laura with his suspicions about her involvement. Laura fires a shotgun that Hammer had rigged to backfire in order to test her loyalty. It is not clear if Velda is still alive.

Cast

Production

Spillane recalled meeting crime figure Billy Hill in London and invited him to the film set. According to Spillane, Hill provided firearms that were used in the film.[3] Spillane also noted that the producers surrounded him with actors who were shorter than he was.

References

  1. ^ "Fiscally-Complicated Colorama May Be Absorbed by a Major; Marathon Meetings Seek Answer". Variety. 18 September 1963. p. 3. Retrieved 20 February 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ "Movies: I, the Actor". Time. 7 June 1963. ISSN 0040-781X. Archived from the original on 11 January 2005. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  3. ^ "Interviewing Mickey Spillane - Crime Time". Crime Time. 29 June 2002. Retrieved 26 January 2018.


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