The Girl Hunters

Jun 1, 1963

1h 38m

★ 5.5

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 Eaton 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

Jack Williams was the best friend of Vietnam veteran and detective Mike Hammer. When Jack is murdered, Mike makes it his business to solve the crime. He is helped by his secretary Velda, and partly helped, partly hindered by the Chief of Police, Pat Chambers. On the trail of the killer, Mike discovers government conspiracies, and plots used by the CIA and the Mafia.

5.7

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Aug 14, 1953

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7.2

Kiss Me Deadly

Apr 28, 1955

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.

5.3

My Gun Is Quick

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6.2

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4.0

More Than Murder

Jan 26, 1984

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7.1

Murder Me, Murder You

Apr 9, 1983

Private eye Mike Hammer probes his long-lost love's death while seeking their daughter.

4.8

Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All

May 21, 1989

Mike Hammer is kidnapped and led to believe it is the work of a Las Vegas entertainer, but soon realises somebody else is involved.

3.8

Come Die with Me: A Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Mystery

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6.0

Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane

Jan 1, 1998

Documentary about the life and work of mystery writer Mickey Spillane.

8.4

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7.2

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6.5

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8.0

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7.8

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6.5

Secret Beyond the Door

Dec 24, 1947

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1.0

No Place

Dec 4, 2020

Mac travels the county looking for the next hustle. After he wraps up business with his Midwest fixer Les, she turns him on to a big score in Indianapolis with a local bar owner. He finds out it involves his old flame Evelyn and soon discovers that his past has caught up with him and he may not make it out alive!

6.3

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6.7

The Da Vinci Code

May 17, 2006

A murder in Paris’ Louvre Museum and cryptic clues in some of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery. For 2,000 years a secret society closely guards information that — should it come to light — could rock the very foundations of Christianity.