Review of The Girl Hunters (1963) by Allen R — 08 May 2011

Easily the strangest Mike Hammer film yet. From the idea of the character's creator playing the role, to the use of an entire core Hammer-verse character as a MacGuffin, there's some wildly interesting choices being made here on the part of director Roy Rowland, unfortunately they all backfire and the result is a trainwreck of the worst variety - a dull one.

It's worth sitting through if you're a Hammer or hard-boiled devotee just to get to the brutal finale which, admittedly, feels out of place considering how cynically pedestrian the prior 90 minute come across.