The Girl Hunters (film)

The Girl Hunters
Directed byRoy Rowland
Written byMickey Spillane
Robert Fellows
Roy Rowland
Produced byRobert Fellows
Starring
CinematographyKenneth Talbot
Edited bySidney Stone
Music byPhilip Green
Production
companies
Fellane Productions
Present Day Productions, Inc.
Distributed byColorama Features
Zodiac International Pictures
Release date
  • 12 June 1963 (1963-06-12) (Los Angeles premiere)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$400,000[1]

The Girl Hunters (1963) is a British crime drama film directed by Roy Rowland and adapted from the 1962 Mickey Spillane pulp novel of the same name. Exteriors were shot on location in New York with studio scenes in London.

Spillane stars as private detective Mike Hammer, one of the few occasions in film history in which an author of a popular literary hero has portrayed his own character. The film also stars Shirley Eaton, Lloyd Nolan and columnist Hy Gardner as himself.

Producer Robert Fellows intended to follow the film with Spillane's The Snake, but the second film was never produced.[2]

  1. ^ "Fiscally-Complicated Colorama May Be Absorbed by a Major; Marathon Meetings Seek Answer". Variety. 18 September 1963. p. 3. Retrieved 20 February 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ "Movies: I, the Actor". Time. 7 June 1963. ISSN 0040-781X. Archived from the original on 11 January 2005. Retrieved 26 January 2018.