The Girl Hunters (1963)

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

Directed by: Roy Rowland

Starring: Mickey Spillane, Shirley Eaton, Lloyd Nolan, Scott Peters, Hy Gardner, Guy Kingsley Poynter

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