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1982
I, the Jury is a 1982 American crime thriller film based on the 1947 detective novel by Mickey Spillane. The story was previously filmed in 3D in 1953. Larry Cohen wrote the screenplay and was hired to direct, but—with the film's budget already out of control after one week of shooting—was replaced at short notice by veteran TV director Richard T. Heffron.
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"Toxic masculinity" is the phrase that became popular in recent times, but if it had been around in late 1940s, it would have probably been applied to the works of Mickey Spillane and his best known literary creation, private detective Mike Hammer. The ultra-machistic protagonist of Spillane's novels was known for his own brutal pursuit of vigilante justice and a lot of sex and violence, sometimes applied to the sam…More
