The Girl Hunters
by Mickey Spillaneliterary work· published 1962
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The Girl Hunters is a 1962 novel by Mickey Spillane, featuring private investigator Mike Hammer. The same year it was published, it was announced that it would be adapted for the screen with Spillane himself playing Mike Hammer. Hammer has been a drunk living in gutters around New York City for the past seven years. Hammer's secretary and fiancée, Velda, is believed to be dead after a botched protection job involving a Chicago socialite and her new husband. Then, Hammer is apprehended and taken to an undisclosed location, where he is interrogated by former friend Captain Pat Chambers. Chambers, who blames Hammer for Velda's death, pummels him repeatedly, but slacks off.
Adaptations (1)
The Girl Hunters was adapted into a 1963 film.
The Girl Hunters1963 · film · 98 min · dir. Roy Rowland · IMDb ↗IMDb5.9Mickey 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
