Absorbing and worthy suspense film about secret organizations, blackmails , killings , corruption and a hard intrigue . Decently made by Roy Rowland who made this action picture for independent release based on a Mickey Spillane "Mike Hammer" novel starring Spillane himself , Girl hunters (1963) . That intrepid detective , Mike Hammer middlingly played by his creator Mickey Spillane , is caught up with communist spies , wicked girls , a suspicious widow of a murdered senator , called Laura Knapp : gorgeous bombshell Shirley Eaton , pre-Goldfinger , and a missing secretary .
Typical plot about a peculiar detective who has spent seven years in an alcoholic funk after the supposed death of his secretary , Velda , then he is brought back to the land of the living by his old friendly enemy, police lieutenant Pat Chambers ; later on , being trapped in the quicksand of love and caught up in a nightmare of murder and intrigue . Hammer is his usual judge-and-jury role but the is fast-paced . It results to be a twisted film Noir about murders , troubled relationships , treason , dark secrets , including an unforgettable dialog ; being based on the novel by Mickey Spillane himself and script from Robert Fellows and director Roy Rowland . Frustrated at seeing his scripts rewritten by others , the film's star, Mike Spillane , vowed that from then on he would play and write his own screenplays and therefore not have to see them get meddled with. Word-for-word and scene-for-scene virtually the same as the original novel. It packs an adequate realization , an original script , haunting atmosphere , intriguing events ; the reason for madness and murder prevail .
The motion picture was uneven but professionally directed by Roy Rowland . Veteran MGM B director Roy Rowland ended his career with three cheap westerns co-produced with MGM and shot in Spain . Roy sharpened his directing chops at MGM with a series of shorts starting in the 1930s, then moved up to features in 1943 . Roy spent quite a bit of time at the studio, from 1943-51 and again from 1954-58 ; he had the good fortune to marry the niece of Louis B. Mayer and was the father of actor Steve Rowland . While not one of the studio's top-rank directors , he was a good professional who had a considerable success . Most were B-movies, but he occasionally handled such A-graders . His first movies had success enough , such as : Our vines have tender grapes (1945) , Two weeks in love (1950) , Bugles in afternoon (1952) , Hit the deck (1955). His greatest hit was , of course , the fantasy movie titled The 5000 fingers of Dr T (1953) . He specialized in a variety of genres, including musicals : ¡Viva Las Vegas! (1956) The seven hills of Rome (57) , Two weeks with love (50) and dramas : Our wines have tender grapes 45 with Edward G Robinson (1945). He was also responsible for the tough, fast-paced Rogue Cop (1954), one of the few MGM films that could be considered "film noir" . Roy was a Western expert , as the last film he made at MGM was this "B" western with Stewart Granger, Gun Glory (1957) ; besides , he filmed Outriders with Joel McCrea , Bugles in the afternoon with Ray Milland and Many rivers to cross with Robert Taylor ; after which and then he traveled to Europe for a string of Spanish/Italian-made westerns, such as : Los Pistoleros De Casa Grande and Ley Del Forastero . His final film as director was a somewhat cheesy pirate movie (he was uncredited ; his Italian co-director Sergio Bergonzelli got sole credit) called El Tigre De Los 7 Mares and its sequel : Tormenta Sobre el Pacífico (1966) . He was associate producer on Nathan Juran's Spain-shot Western : Al Infierno, gringo (1969), after which he retired. The Girl Hunters(1963) rating : 6/10 , acceptable and passable thriller .
Typical plot about a peculiar detective who has spent seven years in an alcoholic funk after the supposed death of his secretary , Velda , then he is brought back to the land of the living by his old friendly enemy, police lieutenant Pat Chambers ; later on , being trapped in the quicksand of love and caught up in a nightmare of murder and intrigue . Hammer is his usual judge-and-jury role but the is fast-paced . It results to be a twisted film Noir about murders , troubled relationships , treason , dark secrets , including an unforgettable dialog ; being based on the novel by Mickey Spillane himself and script from Robert Fellows and director Roy Rowland . Frustrated at seeing his scripts rewritten by others , the film's star, Mike Spillane , vowed that from then on he would play and write his own screenplays and therefore not have to see them get meddled with. Word-for-word and scene-for-scene virtually the same as the original novel. It packs an adequate realization , an original script , haunting atmosphere , intriguing events ; the reason for madness and murder prevail .
The motion picture was uneven but professionally directed by Roy Rowland . Veteran MGM B director Roy Rowland ended his career with three cheap westerns co-produced with MGM and shot in Spain . Roy sharpened his directing chops at MGM with a series of shorts starting in the 1930s, then moved up to features in 1943 . Roy spent quite a bit of time at the studio, from 1943-51 and again from 1954-58 ; he had the good fortune to marry the niece of Louis B. Mayer and was the father of actor Steve Rowland . While not one of the studio's top-rank directors , he was a good professional who had a considerable success . Most were B-movies, but he occasionally handled such A-graders . His first movies had success enough , such as : Our vines have tender grapes (1945) , Two weeks in love (1950) , Bugles in afternoon (1952) , Hit the deck (1955). His greatest hit was , of course , the fantasy movie titled The 5000 fingers of Dr T (1953) . He specialized in a variety of genres, including musicals : ¡Viva Las Vegas! (1956) The seven hills of Rome (57) , Two weeks with love (50) and dramas : Our wines have tender grapes 45 with Edward G Robinson (1945). He was also responsible for the tough, fast-paced Rogue Cop (1954), one of the few MGM films that could be considered "film noir" . Roy was a Western expert , as the last film he made at MGM was this "B" western with Stewart Granger, Gun Glory (1957) ; besides , he filmed Outriders with Joel McCrea , Bugles in the afternoon with Ray Milland and Many rivers to cross with Robert Taylor ; after which and then he traveled to Europe for a string of Spanish/Italian-made westerns, such as : Los Pistoleros De Casa Grande and Ley Del Forastero . His final film as director was a somewhat cheesy pirate movie (he was uncredited ; his Italian co-director Sergio Bergonzelli got sole credit) called El Tigre De Los 7 Mares and its sequel : Tormenta Sobre el Pacífico (1966) . He was associate producer on Nathan Juran's Spain-shot Western : Al Infierno, gringo (1969), after which he retired. The Girl Hunters(1963) rating : 6/10 , acceptable and passable thriller .