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The Girl Hunters (1963)

The Girl Hunters poster
Directed by
Roy Rowland
Genre
drama film, crime film, neo-noir
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 38m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 23 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A private detective is hired to find a missing woman. He follows clues through New York and London.

grittyatmosphericnoirishdetectivemysteriouslow-keyperiodtense

What happens

The Girl Hunters is a 1963 British crime drama film directed by Roy Rowland and starring Mickey Spillane, Shirley Eaton, Lloyd Nolan and columnist Hy Gardner. It was written by Spillane, Robert Fellows and Rowland, adapted from the 1962 Spillane pulp novel of the same name. Exteriors were shot on location in New York with studio scenes in London. Producer Robert Fellows intended to follow the film with another based on Spillane's 1964 novel The Snake, but the second film was never produced. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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