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I, the Jury
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R,1hr 49min
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1982
Synopsis: Larry Cohen wrote the screenplay to this updating of Mickey Spillane's notorious 1947 novel. Cohen was originally engaged to direct the film as well but was pulled from the director's chair after a week's worth of shooting because he had already run up the budget by $100,000; he was replaced by television director Richard T. Heffron. In this 1982 I, the Jury, Mike Hammer (Armand Assante) is a Vietnam veteran who wears hip duds and drives around in a bronze Trans Am in much the same way as Robert ... Full Synopsis
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This attempt to update Mickey Spillane's hard-nosed style of detective fiction for the 1980's tries hard but still manages to fall short. Larry Cohen's script reworks Spillane's source novel extensively to give it some unusual, politically subversive themes but the film feels oddly lifeless in its pacing and structure. The major reason for this is the no-frills direction from television veteran Richard ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Mike Hammer
Charlotte Bennett
Charles Kalecki
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MICKEY SPILLANE March 9, 1918 - July 17, 2006 Pulp writer Mickey Spillane wielded prose like a blunt...
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