The Girl Hunters

Jun 1, 1963

1h 38m

★ 5.7

Rough! Ripping! Raw!

Overview

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 Earton costars as a glamorous society widow who goes slumming with Hammer.--Sean Axmaker

Genres

Crime

Mystery

Production Companies

Fellane

The Girl Hunters Trailers

Cast

Mike Hammer

Mickey Spillane

Laura Knapp

Shirley Eaton

Arthur Rickerby

Lloyd Nolan

Pat Chambers

Scott Peters

Hy Gardner

Larry Snyder

Guy Kingsley Poynter

Bayliss

James Dyrenforth

Richie Cole

Murray Kash

Duck-Duck

Clive Endersby

Dragon

Larry Taylor

Red Markham

Larry Cross

Landlady

Nellie Hanham

One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.

5.5

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5.7

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5.8

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5.6

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5.1

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6.2

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4.2

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6.6

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3.8

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6.0

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6.5

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5.5

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0.0

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6.3

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6.8

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7.0

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6.6

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0.0

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7.0

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