The Girl Hunters

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

• Mickey SpillaneScreenplay
• Roy RowlandScreenplay
• Robert FellowsScreenplay
• Roy RowlandDirector

• Mickey SpillaneMike Hammer
• Shirley EatonLaura Knapp
• Lloyd NolanArthur Rickerby
• Scott PetersPat Chambers
• Hy GardnerHy Gardner
• Guy Kingsley PoynterLarry Snyder
• James DyrenforthBayliss
• Murray KashRichie Cole
• Clive EndersbyDuck-Duck
• Larry TaylorDragon
• Larry CrossRed Markham
• Nellie HanhamLandlady