The Girl Hunters
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The Girl Hunters is a 1963 American film, adaptated from the 1962 Mickey Spillane pulp novel of the same name.
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.
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.
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