- 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 playedMike Hammer , one of the few occasions in film history in which an author of a popular literaryhero has portrayed his own character. It also starred Bond girlShirley Eaton ("Goldfinger"), and actorLloyd Nolan . The film features one of the earliest examples ofproduct placement in a film when Spillane and Nolan share a couple of cans ofPabst Blue Ribbon . Also, during the firstnewsstand 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, withFred Astaire 's character playing a clone of Mike Hammer.
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