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Directed by Alexander Hall
USA 1938

 

Law professor John Lindsay (Edward G. Robinson, Double Indemnity) is named special prosecutor, assigned to put an end to gangster activity in the city. Civic leader Beal, who got Lindsay his job, is involved in the rackets and wants to control the investigation. Everyone Lindsay’s office persuades to testify turns up dead.

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With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.

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Theatrical Release: August 25th, 1938

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Review: Imprint - Region FREE - Blu-ray

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Runtime 1:22:41.957        
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1.33:1 1080P Single-layered Blu-ray

Disc Size: 23,281,597,708 bytes

Feature: 22,967,113,728 bytes

Video Bitrate: 33.00 Mbps

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video

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LPCM Audio English 2304 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bits
Subtitles English (SDH), None
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Studio: Imprint

 

1.33:1 1080P Single-layered Blu-ray

Disc Size: 23,281,597,708 bytes

Feature: 22,967,113,728 bytes

Video Bitrate: 33.00 Mbps

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video

 

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 Blu-ray Release Date: October 7th, 2022
 Transparent Blu-ray Case inside slipcase

Chapters 12

 

 

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ADDITION: Imprint Blu-ray (October 2022): Imprint have transferred Alexander Hall's I Am the Law to Blu-ray. It is on a single-layered disc with a high bitrate. There are plenty of speckles - less in the second half - and there are two sequences where the image quality severely degrades. These last less than a minute.

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On their Blu-ray, Imprint use a linear PCM mono track (16-bit) in the original English language. I Am the Law has a few aggressive moments fighting, guns, smashing up a store etc. It's flat and a bit scattered which is probably akin to the original source. The score is uncredited by George Parrish (I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island), sounding clean with consistent dialogue in the uncompressed transfer. Imprint offer optional English (SDH) subtitles on their Region FREE Blu-ray.

The Imprint Blu-ray offer no extras for this release aside from the limited edition slipcase.

Alexander Hall's (Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Goin' to Town) I Am the Law has a Jo Swerling (It's a Wonderful Life, Lifeboat) screenplay that was based on a Liberty Magazine serial story by Fred Allhoff. Edward G. Robinson is quite demonstrative - his character was based on the real-life district attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey (1902 – 1971), the US lawyer, prosecutor, and politician. Dewey also served as the 47th governor of New York from 1943 to 1954. I Am the Law also has Barbara O'Neil (Stella Dallas, Tower of London) and Otto Kruger (Hitchcock's Saboteur.) It requires some strong suspension of disbelief but Edward G. fans will find enough to appreciate. The, bare-bones, Imprint Blu-ray offers the premiere of I Am the Law in this format.

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