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Absolutely Brilliant!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

This is not a film noir by any means, but a throwback to the dime detective novel that with several elements added became film noir in the 1940's. You'd almost classify it as film noir, but as somebody who often calls other similar themed films as noir cannot find that one element to put it in that category. As "The Big Sleep" is combination detective story/film noir, this is combination detective story/political thriller.Opening up with a drunk Mike Hammer (Mickey Spillane) passed out on a dark city street, this quickly moves to his rehab, return to his detective agency, and his return to a case involving the murders of his secretary and a senator that has baffled all who have tried to solve it. Hammer ends up all over this dark city in society, in waterfront dives, and involved with soft looking dames who know more than they are willing to share. Never leaving is that solo trumpet, haunting you as it practically becomes a character in the story.Often stagnant and slow, this lacks in star power but overwhelms you with detail and intensity. At times, it becomes very perplexing, taking a metaphorical side street but suddenly back on the main drag. Of the supporting cast, only veteran character actor Lloyd Nolan is familiar, playing opposite Spillane which is the type of part he played as Michael Shayne and other B movie detectives. The future Bond girl, Shirley Eaton, is a golden blonde vixen, making the most of both her sultry looks and mysterious character. This is new wave cinema at its finest at a time when the old style of Hollywood cinema began taking on new ideas to change with the times. If you're hunting for a masterpiece, this ain't it, but it will keep your brain on its toes and your eyes full front.

With people like Stacy Keach, Darren McGavin and Ralph Meeker acclaimed for their portrayals of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, why he thought it would be a good idea to play his creation himself we'll never know. Were not McGavin or Meeker available for The Girl Hunters.Mickey may have invented Mike Hammer, but that doesn't mean he can or should play him. That's what we got actors for. After this all I would say to him if he was still around is Mickey Spillane, stick to your own racket.After a secretary of his disappears and is presumed dead Hammer goes on a seven year bender. But he gets brought back into the game unwillingly when a dying shooting victim will only talk to him. As angry as that gets police detective Scott Peters he has to go along with it. Hammer is back in the game.It's all involved with the murder of a U.S. Senator as well. From the description he was a Joe McCarthy type character. Hammer gets to quiz Shirley Eaton who is the widow and high on the Washington, DC party circuit. The villains are of course those dirty Reds.I noted that the late Robert Fellows was credited as well as Spillane himself with the screenplay. Fellows was a rightwing sort and for a while a producing partner with John Wayne. I think this one was sitting around gathering dust since Joe McCarthy was in his glory days. It certainly is dated.Not much to say about the production itself. Nothing outstanding in it other than Spillane's horrible acting.If The Girl Hunters proves anything it proves Mickey Spillane was not Noel Coward, the best interpreter of his own work.

Few writers get the chance to play their fictional creation on screen as pulp novelist Mickey Spillane does with his brutal private eye Mike Hammer. The aptly named Hammer is more heavy lift than finesse and the square shouldered, squint eyed Spillane along with his clipped voice allows for a nearly adequate PI interpretation. It is his words however that fail the picture with insipid dialog and a convoluted plot whose main intent seems to be to unleash graphic violence with more than a dash of sadism.Private eye Mike Hammer is off the wagon and on the sidewalk when police pick him up for public intoxication. His gal Friday has gone AWOL and probably dead and he can't shake the pain. When he finds out in the tank she may be alive he dries out and the plot thickens up with assassins an FBI agent and a doll or two.The marketing is clear on this shameless turkey from the erroneous title to the gratuitous violence and dolls in bikinis that must have dominated the trailer and lobby cards. Hunters is not without it's flashes of suspense and dark humor but they are brief and sometimes unintentional.

I must disagree with the previous reviewer, who had nothing good to say aboout this movie. The Girl Hunters is I agree unusual--but unusual in a good sense. The acting is excellent. The characters sound as one would imagine real DAs and real private eyes to sound. They don't sound like Robert Di Niro--but that is refreshing.And the musical score is actually exceptionally lyrical and moving.In some ways I like this movie even better than Kiss Me Deadly.Each one gets an A- in my book.