Review of The Girl Hunters (1963) by Art S — 09 May 2011

Pretty tepid outing for Mickey Spiallane's classic P.I. Mike Hammer, notable mostly for the fact that the author plays the character himself, becoming one of the film's major problems, his performance a lump at the center of it.

Kenneth Talbot's moody black and white photography and Shirley Eaton in a bikini for half the film are certainly nice to look at, but the acting is lackluster and the story plodding, never building up the necessary pulp energy to be really entertaining.

Philip Green's bombastic score is sometimes effective, sometimes overbearing.