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Directed by Harry Essex
USA 1953
Mickey Spillane’s two-fisted private detective Mike Hammer makes his film debut
in I, The Jury, now available in stunning 4K UHD, Blu-ray and 3D Blu-ray in this
special limited edition from ClassicFlix. *** Make no mistake, this isn’t Kiss Me Deadly. I, The Jury is a watchable low-budget film noir with good direction, A-1 cinematography, and a dull lead propped up by a game supporting cast. But warts and all, it’s also the first screen appearance of a crime fiction icon as important as Sam Spade and Phillip Marlowe. There is something primitive and compelling about the how Spillane’s Mike Hammer puts his head down and kicks the hell out of the world. He embodies the joyously stupid tough guy fantasies of American men, and he even gets the girl. Press play, let’s watch. Excerpt from WhereDangerLives located HERE |
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Theatrical Release: November 24th, 1953
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Review: Classicflix - Region FREE - 4K UHD
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Distribution | Classicflix - Region FREE - 4K UHD | |
Runtime | 1:28:05.196 | |
Video |
1.37:1 2160P 4K Ultra HD Disc Size: 61,174,471,847 bytes Feature: 60,364,697,280 bytes Video Bitrate: 84.98 MbpsCodec: HEVC Video |
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Bitrate 4K Ultra HD: |
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Audio |
DTS-HD Master
Audio English 1783 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1783 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 /
48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit) Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps |
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Subtitles | English, None | |
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Release Information: Studio: Classicflix
1.37:1 2160P 4K Ultra HD Disc Size: 61,174,471,847 bytes Feature: 60,364,697,280 bytes Video Bitrate: 84.98 MbpsCodec: HEVC Video
Edition Details: 4K Ultra HD disc
• Audio commentary by Mike Hammer continuation writer Max Allan Collins
(Road to Perdition), co-author of Spillane - King of Pulp Fiction (with
James L. Traylor)
Classicflix - Region 'A' - Blu-ray 3-D and 2-D presentations of the film
• Audio commentary by Mike Hammer continuation writer Max Allan Collins
(Road to Perdition), co-author of Spillane - King of Pulp Fiction (with
James L. Traylor)
Transparent 4K Ultra HD Case Chapters 19 |
Comments: |
NOTE:
The below
Blu-ray
and
4K UHD
captures were taken directly from the respective
discs.
NOTE: To watch the 3-D version of "I, The Jury", you will require a 3-DTV or 3-D projector with HDMI 1.4 3-D standards + Compatible 3-D glasses + 3-D Blu-ray player with HDMI 1.4 or higher cable. ABOUT THE RESTORATION: I, The Jury has been restored by UCLA Film and Television Archive in collaboration with PKL Pictures and Romulus Films. Laboratory services by Roundabout Entertainment, The UCLA Digital Lab, Audio Mechanics and Simon Daniel Sound. Special thanks to Connie Elliot, Nicholas Varley and Jonathan C. Woolf.
The image quality of the
2160P is, actually, okay. The
higher resolution assists in supporting the grain and there is some contrast
layering but it is almost never crisp. There are a few instances of depth
and light speckles are infrequent. The HD
presentation is not particularly dynamic but it does advance over the
included 1080P
Blu-ray - and
especially SD - mostly looking for textured and film-like. It would have
been interesting to see how HDR would have benefited the
4K UHD
transfer. As it stands this
has pleasing aspects to it.
NOTE:
We have reviewed the following 4K
UHD packages to date:
Casablanca
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
In the Mood For Love
(NO HDR applied to disc),
The Werewolf vs. the Vampire Woman
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Blow Out
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Night of the Living Dead
(NO HDR applied to disc),
Lost Highway
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Videodrome
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Last Picture Show
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
It Happened One Night
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Mummy
(1932)(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Creature From the Black Lagoon
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Bride of Frankenstein
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Amityville Horror
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The War of the Worlds
(1953)
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Incredible Melting Man
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Event Horizon
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Get Carter
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Killing
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Killer's Kiss
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Out of Sight
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Raging Bull
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Shaft
(1971),
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Double Indemnity
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Untouchables
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
For a Few Dollars More
(no HDR),
Saboteur
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Marnie
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Shadow of a Doubt
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
A Fistful of Dollars
(no HDR),
In the Heat of the Night
(no HDR),
Jack Reacher
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Death Wish II
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Apartment
(no HDR),
The Proposition
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Nightmare Alley (2021)
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Godfather
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Le Crecle Rouge
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
An American Werewolf in London
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
A Hard Day's Night
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Piano
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Great Escape
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Red Shoes
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Citizen Kane
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Unbreakable
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Mulholland Dr.
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Hills Have Eyes
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Servant
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Anatomy of a Murder
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Taxi
Driver
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Wolf Man (1941)
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Frankenstein (1931)
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Deep Red
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Misery
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Silence of the Lambs
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
John Carpenter's "The Thing"
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Cat' o'Nine Tails
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Bird With the Crystal Plumage
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Perdita Durango
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Django
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Fanny Lye Deliver'd (software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,
(NO HDR applied to disc),
Rollerball
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Chernobyl
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Daughters of Darkness
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Vigilante
(software uniformly simulated HDR), Tremors
(software uniformly simulated HDR), Cinema Paradiso
(software uniformly simulated HDR), The Bourne Legacy
(software uniformly simulated HDR), Full Metal Jacket
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Psycho
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Birds (software uniformly simulated HDR),
Rear Window (software uniformly simulated HDR),
Vertigo
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Spartacus
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Jaws
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Invisible Man,
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Steven Spielberg's
War of the Worlds (software uniformly simulated HDR),
Lucio Fulci's 1979
Zombie
(software uniformly simulated HDR),,
2004's
Van Helsing
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Shallows
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Bridge on the River Kwai
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Deer Hunter
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Elephant Man
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
A Quiet Place
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Easy Rider
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Suspiria
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Pan's Labyrinth
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Wizard of Oz, (software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Shining,
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Batman Returns
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Don't Look Now
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Man Who Killed Killed and then The Bigfoot
(software uniformly simulated HDR),,
Bram Stoker's Dracula
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Lucy
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
They Live
(software uniformly simulated HDR), Shutter Island
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
The Matrix
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Alien
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
Toy Story
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
A Few Good Men
(software uniformly simulated HDR),
2001: A Space Odyssey (HDR caps udated),
Schindler's List
(simulated HDR), The
Neon Demon (No HDR), Dawn
of the Dead (No HDR), Saving
Private Ryan (simulated HDR and 'raw' captures), Suspiria (No
HDR), The
Texas Chain Saw Massacre (No HDR), The
Big Lebowski, and I
Am Legend (simulated and 'raw' HDR captures).
On their
4K UHD, Classicflix use a DTS-HD
Master 2.0 channel track (24-bit) in the original English language. "I, The Jury"
was shown with 3 Channel Stereo theatrically - stereophonic. It is
filled with various types of violence. They can punctuate scenes. The
score is by
Franz Waxman (Bride
of Frankenstein
Untamed,
Rebecca,
Dark
Passage,
Rear Window,
Sunset Boulevard etc.)
and it supports the film
with some subtlety and more dramatic sequences. It sounds quite clear
and fault-free in the lossless.
The discs offers optional English subtitles - and, like all
4K UHD, region FREE,
playable worldwide but the
Blu-ray
is Region 'A'-locked..
There are two commentaries and
they are on both the
4K UHD and
Blu-ray discs.
The first is new by Mike Hammer continuation writer Max Allan Collins (Road
to Perdition,
Quarry), co-author of
Spillane - King of Pulp
Fiction (with James L. Traylor.) Max is a friend of mine and he
discusses the Mike Hammer character - how he is played as kinda
intellectually-challenged by Biff Elliot, this being cinematographer John
Alton's only 3-D shot film, how in the novel the major crime that motivated
the murder was 'drug-dealing' which was against the Production Code at the
time - and the same thing happened in
Kiss Me Deadly
(the mystery box actually had narcotics.) Max is great and covers quite a
lot of the cast, Hammer's sexuality and frank violence with many extraneous
links - often within the realm of
Noir. I thought it was an excellent
commentary. The second commentary is archival with
Biff Elliot from 2004 with nephew Josh Shalek. The rest of the supplements
are relegated to the second disc
Blu-ray.
There are some excerpts from a 2006 interview with Biff Elliot, a 10-minute
video on the history of 3-D plus we get the 1/2 hour unaired Mike Hammer
TV Show Pilot from 1954 written and directed by Blake Edwards and
starring Brian Keith. Also included are two rarely seen O. Henry Playhouse
TV episodes, "Between Rounds" with Preston Foster and "After 20
Years" with Peggie Castle. They each ruin about 26-minutes. Lastly is an
episode of the TV Series Public Defender featuring Biff Elliot
entitled "Loyalty". |
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CLICK to order from: Released on Blu-ray in the UK from Studiocanal in October 2022: Bonus Captures: |
Distribution | Classicflix - Region FREE - 4K UHD |
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