The Girl Hunters (film)

"The Girl Hunters" (1963) is an American film, adaptated 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"), and actor Lloyd Nolan. The film features one of the earliest examples of product placement in a film 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.

The title of the novel might be a reference to "Girl Hunt - A Murder Mystery In Jazz", a show-within-a-show ballet number from the 1953 "The Band Wagon" movie, an intentionally incoherent but extremely stylish spoof of Spillane's style, with Fred Astaire's character playing a clone of Mike Hammer.