The Girl Hunters, Roy Rowland (U.K., 1963)

Film - Feature | June 28 | 8:50 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

If you want it done right, do it yourself. Cowriting the script is one thing, but with this British-born brawler, Spillane takes on the lead character, playing iconic Mike Hammer his way. We find husky Hammer in an alley, “a dirty, lousy slob.” A case had gone wrong, Velda, his trusted secretary was presumed dead, and Mike finds his only solace bobbing in booze. Then a dying man tells the down-and-out dick that “The Dragon,” head of a commie spy ring, has Velda, alive. Good shall prevail, Velda shall return, and as the name implies, Mickey is a knockout. Steve Seid

Written by Rowland, Mickey Spillane, Robert Fellows, from the novel by Spillane. Photographed by Kenneth Talbot. With Spillane, Shirley Eaton, Lloyd Nolan, Hy Gardner. (103 mins, B&W, 35mm, ‘Scope, From UCLA Film and Television Archives)

Tickets: $5.50 BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley, staff, students, and faculty,  $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, and youth (17 & under),  $9.50 Adults (18-64)

Event Contact: bampfa@berkeley.edu, (510) 642-1412