I, The Jury (1953 3D TC)
Original 1953 Title Card. Mickey Spillane's "I, the Jury," the 1953 Harry Essex directed 3-D mystery crime thriller, "So raw... So big... So full of naked fury ...IT HAD TO BE FILMED IN 3-D," "For the first time... That Mickey Spillane violence blasts out of the screen at you in 3-DIMENSION!" "Written for the Screen and Directed by Harry Essex," starring Biff Elliott (billed as "introducing Biff Elliot as Mike Hammer"), with Preston Foster, Peggie Castle,Margaret Sheridan, and Alan Reed. Note that Mickey Spillane was a department store salesman in 1940 when he discovered he could sell stories for comic books, and he quickly wrote for all the major companies. After Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Air Force and became a fighter pilot. After the war, he wrote "I, the Jury" in 19 days, and it was published in 1947, and it sold 6.5 million copies in the U.S. alone. Its hero, Mike Hammer, a hard-boiled private eye, would appear in many more novels. Spillane would write for the movies, and he even played Mike Hammer in "The Girl Hunters" in 1963!
Size: 11' x 14"
Condition: Good. Some smudges, rippling, tiny tears, creases and paper loss repaired on backside with tape at bottom left and top right corners with paper replaced at top right corner as depicted in our image. Tack holes at top and bottom corners.