The Girl Hunters (film)
The Girl Hunters (1963) is a British-made film, adapted 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 syndicated newspaper columnist Hy Gardner as himself.
The film features examples of product placement 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.
Producer Robert Fellows intended on following the film with Spillane's The Snake but it was never made.
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