The Girl Hunters (1963) is a British made film, adaptated from the 1962 Mickey Spillane pulp novel The Girl Hunters.
Mickey Spillane played Mike Hammer, one of the few occasions in film history in which an author of a popular literary hero has portrayed his own character. It also starred Bond girl Shirley Eaton (Goldfinger), actor Lloyd Nolan, and Hy Gardner as himself. The film features examples of product placement in a film when Spillane and N...
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The Girl Hunters (1963) is a British made film, adaptated from the 1962 Mickey Spillane pulp novel The Girl Hunters.
Mickey Spillane played Mike Hammer, one of the few occasions in film history in which an author of a popular literary hero has portrayed his own character. It also starred Bond girl Shirley Eaton (Goldfinger), actor Lloyd Nolan, and Hy Gardner as himself. The film features examples of product placement in a film when Spillane and Nolan share a couple of cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon. Also, during the first newsstand scene, Mad Magazine #77 (March 1963) is clearly visible.
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.Spillane also noted that the producers surrounded him with actors who were shorter than he was.
The title of the novel might be a reference to Girl Hunt - A Murder Mystery In Jazz, a show-within-a-show ballet number from the 1953 movie The...
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